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Douglas

Ghost town · Wayne County, Ohio

Wooster quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 1:62,500)
Wooster quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Douglas is a ghost town in Wayne County, Ohio. It is one of 7 former communities in Wayne County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 40th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Douglas as a historical populated place on the Rittman 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 40.9162° N, 81.8718° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleRittman
Elevation1,056 ft
Nearest living townSterling, OH
Distance to it3.8 miles
GNIS feature ID1067271
Coordinates40.91617, -81.87181

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.

Douglas today, aerial view
Wooster quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 1:62,500)

Left: Wooster quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 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

Douglas is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Sterling, OH (population 236), about 3.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,056 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 Douglas?

Douglas is in Wayne County, Ohio, at 40.9162, -81.8718.

How many ghost towns are in Wayne County?

Wayne County, Ohio has 7 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.