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Girard

Ghost town · Scott County, Arkansas

Magazine Mountain #3 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500)
Magazine Mountain #3 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Girard is a ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas. It is one of 11 former communities in Scott County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 29th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Girard as a historical populated place on the Golden City 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 35.0054° N, 93.9430° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGolden City
Elevation984 ft
Nearest living townBooneville, AR
Distance to it9.4 miles
GNIS feature ID66289
Coordinates35.00537, -93.94298

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.

Girard today, aerial view
Magazine Mountain #3 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 1:62,500)

Left: Magazine Mountain #3 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1887, 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

Girard is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Booneville, AR (population 3,814), about 9.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 984 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 Girard?

Girard is in Scott County, Arkansas, at 35.0054, -93.9430.

How many ghost towns are in Scott County?

Scott County, Arkansas has 11 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.