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Arrowsmiths

Ghost town · Defiance County, Ohio

Bryan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1914, 1:62,500)
Bryan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1914, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Arrowsmiths is a ghost town in Defiance County, Ohio, recorded as human settlement in United States of America. It is one of 10 former communities in Defiance County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 17th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Arrowsmiths as a historical populated place: 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 41.3501° N, 84.6711° W.

Key facts

Elevation757 ft
Nearest living townHicksville, OH
Distance to it6.2 miles
Coordinates41.35011, -84.67112

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.

Arrowsmiths today, aerial view
Bryan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1914, 1:62,500)

Left: Bryan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1914, 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

Arrowsmiths is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hicksville, OH (population 3,228), about 6.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 757 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 Arrowsmiths?

Arrowsmiths is in Defiance County, Ohio, at 41.3501, -84.6711.

How many ghost towns are in Defiance County?

Defiance County, Ohio has 10 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.