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Keyton

Ghost town · Clark County, Arkansas

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

Keyton is a ghost town in Clark County, Arkansas. It is one of 8 former communities in Clark County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 43rd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Keyton as a historical populated place on the Gurdon 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 33.9707° N, 93.2199° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGurdon
Elevation286 ft
Nearest living townGurdon, AR
Distance to it5.3 miles
GNIS feature ID65023
Coordinates33.97066, -93.21989

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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.

Keyton today, aerial view
Gurdon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)

Left: Gurdon 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

Keyton is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Gurdon, AR (population 1,777), about 5.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 286 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 Keyton?

Keyton is in Clark County, Arkansas, at 33.9707, -93.2199.

How many ghost towns are in Clark County?

Clark County, Arkansas has 8 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.