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Yuchi

Ghost town · Russell County, Alabama

Columbus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500)
Columbus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Yuchi is a ghost town in Russell County, Alabama. It is one of 4 former communities in Russell County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 20th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Yuchi as a historical populated place on the Fort Benning 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 32.2918° N, 84.9416° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFort Benning
Elevation213 ft
Nearest living townCusseta-Chattahoochee County unified government, GA
Distance to it9.8 miles
GNIS feature ID133354
Coordinates32.29182, -84.94160

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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.

Yuchi today, aerial view
Columbus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500)

Left: Columbus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500), 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

Yuchi is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Cusseta-Chattahoochee County unified government, GA (population 9,181), about 9.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 213 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 Yuchi?

Yuchi is in Russell County, Alabama, at 32.2918, -84.9416.

How many ghost towns are in Russell County?

Russell County, Alabama has 4 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.