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Brownstone

Ghost town · Ventura County, California

Piru quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1900, 1:62,500)
Piru quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1900, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Brownstone is a ghost town in Ventura County, California. It is one of 9 former communities in Ventura County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 38th among the 58 California counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Brownstone as a historical populated place on the Fillmore 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 34.4094° N, 118.9348° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFillmore
Elevation455 ft
Nearest living townFillmore, CA
Distance to it1.2 miles
GNIS feature ID1675760
Coordinates34.40944, -118.93482

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.

Brownstone today, aerial view
Piru quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1900, 1:62,500)

Left: Piru quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1900, 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

Brownstone is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Fillmore, CA (population 16,665), about 1.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 455 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 Brownstone?

Brownstone is in Ventura County, California, at 34.4094, -118.9348.

How many ghost towns are in Ventura County?

Ventura County, California has 9 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 2026-11-06.