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Cannon

Ghost town · Benton County, Arkansas

Bentonville South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)
Bentonville South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cannon is a ghost town in Benton County, Arkansas. It is one of 51 former communities in Benton County on the federal names register. No county in Arkansas has more among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cannon as a historical populated place on the Bentonville South 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 36.2601° N, 94.2469° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBentonville South
Elevation1,234 ft
Nearest living townCave Springs, AR
Distance to it1.6 miles
GNIS feature ID75415
Coordinates36.26008, -94.24687

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.

Cannon today, aerial view
Bentonville South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)

Left: Bentonville South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 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

Cannon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Cave Springs, AR (population 5,778), about 1.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,234 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 Cannon?

Cannon is in Benton County, Arkansas, at 36.2601, -94.2469.

How many ghost towns are in Benton County?

Benton County, Arkansas has 51 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.