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Carters

Ghost town · Madison County, Ohio

London quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1907, 1:62,500)
London quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1907, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Carters is a ghost town in Madison County, Ohio. It is one of 8 former communities in Madison County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 31st among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Carters as a historical populated place on the West Jefferson 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 39.9395° N, 83.3630° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWest Jefferson
Elevation991 ft
Nearest living townLafayette, OH
Distance to it2.3 miles
GNIS feature ID1067460
Coordinates39.93951, -83.36297

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.

Carters today, aerial view
London quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1907, 1:62,500)

Left: London quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1907, 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

Carters is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lafayette, OH (population 124), about 2.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 991 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 Carters?

Carters is in Madison County, Ohio, at 39.9395, -83.3630.

How many ghost towns are in Madison County?

Madison County, Ohio has 8 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.