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Beachboro

Ghost town · Jackson County, Alabama

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

Beachboro is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama. It is one of 29 former communities in Jackson County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 4th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Beachboro as a historical populated place on the Princeton 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 34.8529° N, 86.2078° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePrinceton
Elevation896 ft
Nearest living townSkyline, AL
Distance to it6.1 miles
GNIS feature ID139093
Coordinates34.85286, -86.20776

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.

Beachboro today, aerial view
Princeton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Princeton 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

Beachboro is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Skyline, AL (population 1,011), about 6.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 896 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 Beachboro?

Beachboro is in Jackson County, Alabama, at 34.8529, -86.2078.

How many ghost towns are in Jackson County?

Jackson County, Alabama has 29 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 2026-11-05.