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Junction

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

Junction is a ghost town in Carroll County, Arkansas. 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 Junction 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 36.4365° N, 93.7066° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEureka Springs
Elevation1,105 ft
Nearest living townEureka Springs, AR
Distance to it2.8 miles
GNIS feature ID69228
Coordinates36.43646, -93.70658

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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.

Junction 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

Junction is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Eureka Springs, AR (population 2,269), about 2.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,105 feet above sea level. 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 Junction?

Junction is in Carroll County, Arkansas, at 36.4365, -93.7066.

How many ghost towns are in Carroll County?

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

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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.