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Norton

Ghost town · Carroll County, Arkansas

Green Forest quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)
Green Forest quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Norton is a ghost town in Carroll County, Arkansas. It is one of 17 former communities in Carroll County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 10th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Norton as a historical populated place on the Green Forest 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 36.3381° N, 93.4535° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGreen Forest
Elevation1,299 ft
Nearest living townGreen Forest, AR
Distance to it1.3 miles
GNIS feature ID69233
Coordinates36.33812, -93.45352

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.

Norton today, aerial view
Green Forest quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)

Left: Green Forest quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 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

Norton is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Green Forest, AR (population 3,072), about 1.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,299 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 Norton?

Norton is in Carroll County, Arkansas, at 36.3381, -93.4535.

How many ghost towns are in Carroll County?

Carroll 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.