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Leon

Ghost town · Franklin County, Arkansas

Barber quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500)
Barber quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Leon is a ghost town in Franklin County, Arkansas. It is one of 10 former communities in Franklin County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 33rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Leon as a historical populated place on the Barber 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 35.2390° N, 94.0058° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBarber
Elevation527 ft
Nearest living townCharleston, AR
Distance to it4.5 miles
GNIS feature ID63015
Coordinates35.23898, -94.00576

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.

Leon today, aerial view
Barber quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500)

Left: Barber quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500), 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

Leon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Charleston, AR (population 2,611), about 4.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 527 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 Leon?

Leon is in Franklin County, Arkansas, at 35.2390, -94.0058.

How many ghost towns are in Franklin County?

Franklin County, Arkansas has 10 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.