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Horace

Ghost town · Wayne County, Ohio

Loudonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1912, 1:62,500)
Loudonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1912, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Horace 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 Horace as a historical populated place on the Shreve 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 40.7345° N, 82.0771° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleShreve
Elevation951 ft
Nearest living townShreve, OH
Distance to it4.7 miles
GNIS feature ID1054786
Coordinates40.73450, -82.07710

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.

Horace today, aerial view
Loudonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1912, 1:62,500)

Left: Loudonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1912, 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

Horace is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Shreve, OH (population 1,559), about 4.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 951 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 Horace?

Horace is in Wayne County, Ohio, at 40.7345, -82.0771.

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.