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Lancaster

Ghost town · Crawford County, Arkansas

Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 1:62,500)
Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Lancaster is a ghost town in Crawford County, Arkansas. It is one of 6 former communities in Crawford County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 54th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Lancaster as a historical populated place on the Mountainburg SW 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 35.5704° N, 94.2274° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMountainburg SW
Nearest living townRudy, AR
Distance to it3.1 miles
GNIS feature ID81945
Coordinates35.57036, -94.22743

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.

Lancaster today, aerial view
Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 1:62,500)

Left: Winslow #4 quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1898, 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

Lancaster is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Rudy, AR (population 149), about 3.1 miles away in a straight line. 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 Lancaster?

Lancaster is in Crawford County, Arkansas, at 35.5704, -94.2274.

How many ghost towns are in Crawford County?

Crawford County, Arkansas has 6 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.