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Klondike

Ghost town · Saline County, Arkansas

Benton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1938, 1:62,500)
Benton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1938, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Klondike is a ghost town in Saline County, Arkansas. It is one of 17 former communities in Saline County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Klondike as a historical populated place on the Haskell 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 34.5390° N, 92.7038° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHaskell
Elevation412 ft
Nearest living townHaskell, AR
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID66002
Coordinates34.53898, -92.70378

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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.

Klondike today, aerial view
Benton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1938, 1:62,500)

Left: Benton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1938, 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

Klondike is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Haskell, AR (population 4,035), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 412 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 Klondike?

Klondike is in Saline County, Arkansas, at 34.5390, -92.7038.

How many ghost towns are in Saline County?

Saline County, Arkansas has 17 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.