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Java

Ghost town · Lucas County, Ohio

Swanton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500)
Swanton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Java is a ghost town in Lucas County, Ohio. It is one of 9 former communities in Lucas County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 23rd among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Java as a historical populated place: 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 41.6439° N, 83.8564° W.

Key facts

Elevation690 ft
Nearest living townSwanton, OH
Distance to it4.3 miles
Coordinates41.64390, -83.85640

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.

Java today, aerial view
Swanton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 1:62,500)

Left: Swanton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1911, 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

Java is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Swanton, OH (population 4,171), about 4.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 690 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 Java?

Java is in Lucas County, Ohio, at 41.6439, -83.8564.

How many ghost towns are in Lucas County?

Lucas 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.