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Saline

Ghost town · Dallas County, Arkansas

Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)
Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Saline is a ghost town in Dallas County, Arkansas. It is one of 7 former communities in Dallas County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 50th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Saline as a historical populated place on the Bunn 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 34.0870° N, 92.4646° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBunn
Elevation222 ft
Nearest living townCarthage, AR
Distance to it5.3 miles
GNIS feature ID70275
Coordinates34.08704, -92.46460

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.

Saline today, aerial view
Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 1:24,000)

Left: Bunn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1964, 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

Saline is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Carthage, AR (population 170), about 5.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 222 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 Saline?

Saline is in Dallas County, Arkansas, at 34.0870, -92.4646.

How many ghost towns are in Dallas County?

Dallas County, Arkansas has 7 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.