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Auburn

Ghost town · Sebastian County, Arkansas

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

Auburn is a ghost town in Sebastian County, Arkansas. It is one of 4 former communities in Sebastian County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 68th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Auburn as a historical populated place on the Lavaca 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 35.2545° N, 94.1299° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLavaca
Elevation480 ft
Nearest living townCharleston, AR
Distance to it5.4 miles
GNIS feature ID67190
Coordinates35.25454, -94.12993

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.

Auburn today, aerial view
Lavaca quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1906, 1:62,500)

Left: Lavaca 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

Auburn is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Charleston, AR (population 2,611), about 5.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 480 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 Auburn?

Auburn is in Sebastian County, Arkansas, at 35.2545, -94.1299.

How many ghost towns are in Sebastian County?

Sebastian County, Arkansas has 4 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.