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Slab Town

Ghost town · Hardin County, Tennessee

Counce quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)
Counce quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Slab Town is a ghost town in Hardin County, Tennessee. It is one of 9 former communities in Hardin County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 31st among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Slab Town as a historical populated place on the Counce 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 35.0479° N, 88.2525° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCounce
Elevation404 ft
Nearest living townCounce, TN
Distance to it1.2 miles
GNIS feature ID1313282
Coordinates35.04786, -88.25254

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.

Slab Town today, aerial view
Counce quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Counce quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 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

Slab Town is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Counce, TN (population 352), about 1.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 404 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 Slab Town?

Slab Town is in Hardin County, Tennessee, at 35.0479, -88.2525.

How many ghost towns are in Hardin County?

Hardin County, Tennessee has 9 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 2026-11-06.