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Beech

Ghost town · Marion County, Ohio

Mount Gilead quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500)
Mount Gilead quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Beech is a ghost town in Marion County, Ohio. It is one of 9 former communities in Marion County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 22nd among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Beech as a historical populated place on the Denmark 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 40.5578° N, 82.9769° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDenmark
Elevation979 ft
Nearest living townCaledonia, OH
Distance to it5.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1071749
Coordinates40.55784, -82.97685

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.

Beech today, aerial view
Mount Gilead quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500)

Left: Mount Gilead quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 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

Beech is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Caledonia, OH (population 444), about 5.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 979 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 Beech?

Beech is in Marion County, Ohio, at 40.5578, -82.9769.

How many ghost towns are in Marion County?

Marion County, Ohio 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.