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Cedahoma

Ghost town · Choctaw County, Alabama

Myrtlewood North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)
Myrtlewood North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cedahoma is a ghost town in Choctaw County, Alabama. It is the only former community in Choctaw County recorded on the federal names register, out of 431 across Alabama.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cedahoma as a historical populated place on the Myrtlewood North 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 32.3090° N, 87.9770° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMyrtlewood North
Elevation65 ft
Nearest living townMyrtlewood, AL
Distance to it4.3 miles
GNIS feature ID1730207
Coordinates32.30903, -87.97696

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.

Cedahoma today, aerial view
Myrtlewood North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 1:24,000)

Left: Myrtlewood North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1970, 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

Cedahoma is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Myrtlewood, AL (population 102), about 4.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 65 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.

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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.