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Fauser

Ghost town · Crawford County, Ohio

Bucyrus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)
Bucyrus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Fauser is a ghost town in Crawford County, Ohio. It is one of 3 former communities in Crawford County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 73rd among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Fauser as a historical populated place on the Chatfield 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 40.9212° N, 82.9402° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleChatfield
Elevation1,008 ft
Nearest living townChatfield, OH
Distance to it2.1 miles
GNIS feature ID1063646
Coordinates40.92117, -82.94019

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.

Fauser today, aerial view
Bucyrus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)

Left: Bucyrus quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 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

Fauser is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Chatfield, OH (population 215), about 2.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,008 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 Fauser?

Fauser is in Crawford County, Ohio, at 40.9212, -82.9402.

How many ghost towns are in Crawford County?

Crawford County, Ohio has 3 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.