List of ghost towns in Ohio

This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Ohio.

• Ai
• Atwood (Carroll County) - small town in Carroll County. Abandoned to make way for Atwood Lake in effort to control flooding
• Atwood (Summit County) - small town in southern Summit County.
• Blowville
• Blue Ball
• Claylick, Licking County, Ohio Located at the intersection of Claylick and the Licking River, this was one of the largest towns to be destroyed and caused primarily by 2 floods 1 in 1919 and 1 in 1959. After the 2nd flood the Dillon Dam floodplain project destroyed this town.
• Elk Lick (Destroyed and flooded after construction of William H. Harsha Lake)
• Boston, Ohio (aka "Helltown")
• Hibernia
• Ingham
• Knockemstiff
• Moonville
• New Burlington
• New Hampton
• Newville
• Oreton
• Providence
• Revenge
• Rumley
• Rural Hill (Once thriving, died after local slaughter house, the main employer, closed its doors)
• San Toy
• Tadmor ^[1]
• Sprucevale ^[2] (Canal town abandoned in 1870 with the closing of the canal, whose locks are still present)
• Utopia
• Winchester
• Wonderland

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