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Joe

Ghost town · Hocking County, Ohio

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

Joe is a ghost town in Hocking County, Ohio. It is one of 16 former communities in Hocking County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 5th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Joe as a historical populated place on the Bremen 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 39.6473° N, 82.4077° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBremen
Elevation784 ft
Nearest living townHide-A-Way Hills, OH
Distance to it3.1 miles
GNIS feature ID1067398
Coordinates39.64729, -82.40765

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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.

Joe today, aerial view
Logan quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1907, 1:62,500)

Left: Logan 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

Joe is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hide-A-Way Hills, OH (population 908), about 3.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 784 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 Joe?

Joe is in Hocking County, Ohio, at 39.6473, -82.4077.

How many ghost towns are in Hocking County?

Hocking County, Ohio has 16 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.