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Fort Leaton

Ghost town · Presidio County, Texas

Presidio East quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1979, 1:24,000)
Presidio East quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1979, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Fort Leaton is a ghost town in Presidio County, Texas. It is one of 7 former communities in Presidio County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 12th among the 165 Texas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Fort Leaton as a historical populated place on the Presidio East 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 29.5427° N, 104.3221° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePresidio East
Elevation2,571 ft
Nearest living townPresidio, TX
Distance to it2.9 miles
GNIS feature ID2034879
Coordinates29.54268, -104.32215

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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.

Fort Leaton today, aerial view
Presidio East quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1979, 1:24,000)

Left: Presidio East quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1979, 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

Fort Leaton is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Presidio, TX (population 3,226), about 2.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 2,571 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 Fort Leaton?

Fort Leaton is in Presidio County, Texas, at 29.5427, -104.3221.

How many ghost towns are in Presidio County?

Presidio County, Texas has 7 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.