Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Cincinnati
The survey records 1,539 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Cincinnati, OH. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
Ohio's most haunted-storied tunnel is all that's left of a coal hamlet.
Vanished Place
Frontier Indiana's boomtown county seat, emptied by a single summer's epidemic.
Vanished Place
A rough Ohio coal town that voted itself out of existence in 1931.
Historic Townsite
The first Stearns coal camp — rebuilt board by board as a living museum.
Historic Townsite
A coal camp rebuilt as ghosts on purpose — steel outlines where the houses stood.
Vanished Place
A farm town under the widest part of Norris Lake — the 'Loyston Sea.'
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Cincinnati area to see them in place.