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Shaver

Ghost town · Boone County, Arkansas

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

Shaver is a ghost town in Boone County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Boone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 66th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Shaver as a historical populated place on the Alpena 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 36.3595° N, 93.2696° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleAlpena
Elevation1,081 ft
Nearest living townAlpena, AR
Distance to it5 miles
GNIS feature ID69325
Coordinates36.35951, -93.26963

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.

Shaver today, aerial view
Alpena quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1972, 1:24,000)

Left: Alpena 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

Shaver is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Alpena, AR (population 429), about 5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,081 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 Shaver?

Shaver is in Boone County, Arkansas, at 36.3595, -93.2696.

How many ghost towns are in Boone County?

Boone County, Arkansas has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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