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Gaskins

Ghost town · Carroll County, Arkansas

Eureka Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)
Eureka Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Gaskins is a ghost town in Carroll County, Arkansas, recorded as extinct town in Arkansas, United States. It is one of 17 former communities in Carroll County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 10th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Gaskins as a historical populated place on the Eureka Springs topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 36.4453° N, 93.7432° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Arkansas before 1931 that mention “Gaskins”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 824 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEureka Springs
Nearest living townEureka Springs, AR
Distance to it2.4 miles
GNIS feature ID69217
Coordinates36.44535, -93.74325

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Gaskins today, aerial view
Eureka Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)

Left: Eureka Springs quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Gaskins is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Eureka Springs, AR (population 2,269), about 2.4 miles away in a straight line. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Gaskins?

Gaskins is in Carroll County, Arkansas, at 36.4453, -93.7432.

How many ghost towns are in Carroll County?

Carroll County, Arkansas has 17 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.