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Walden

Ghost town · Carroll County, Arkansas

Beaver quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:24,000)
Beaver quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Walden 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 Walden as a historical populated place on the Beaver 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 36.4831° N, 93.8169° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBeaver
Elevation979 ft
Nearest living townBeaver, AR
Distance to it2.3 miles
GNIS feature ID69245
Coordinates36.48313, -93.81686

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.

Walden today, aerial view
Beaver quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:24,000)

Left: Beaver quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 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

Walden is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Beaver, AR (population 91), about 2.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 979 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 Walden?

Walden is in Carroll County, Arkansas, at 36.4831, -93.8169.

How many ghost towns are in Carroll County?

Carroll County, Arkansas has 17 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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