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Kellker

Ghost town · Morrow County, Ohio

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

Kellker is a ghost town in Morrow County, Ohio. It is one of 5 former communities in Morrow County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 55th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Kellker as a historical populated place on the Shauck 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 40.6117° N, 82.7474° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleShauck
Elevation1,348 ft
Nearest living townCandlewood Lake, OH
Distance to it1.5 miles
GNIS feature ID1067296
Coordinates40.61173, -82.74740

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.

Kellker today, aerial view
Shauck quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)

Left: Shauck 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

Kellker is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Candlewood Lake, OH (population 1,108), about 1.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,348 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 Kellker?

Kellker is in Morrow County, Ohio, at 40.6117, -82.7474.

How many ghost towns are in Morrow County?

Morrow County, Ohio has 5 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.