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Lebanon

Ghost town · Searcy County, Arkansas

Marshall quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)
Marshall quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Lebanon is a ghost town in Searcy County, Arkansas. It is one of 12 former communities in Searcy County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 22nd among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Lebanon as a historical populated place on the Marshall 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 35.9162° N, 92.7154° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMarshall
Elevation678 ft
Nearest living townMarshall, AR
Distance to it3.9 miles
GNIS feature ID69964
Coordinates35.91619, -92.71544

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.

Lebanon today, aerial view
Marshall quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 1:24,000)

Left: Marshall quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1962, 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

Lebanon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Marshall, AR (population 1,445), about 3.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 678 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 Lebanon?

Lebanon is in Searcy County, Arkansas, at 35.9162, -92.7154.

How many ghost towns are in Searcy County?

Searcy County, Arkansas has 12 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.