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Madland

Ghost town · Scioto County, Ohio

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

Madland is a ghost town in Scioto County, Ohio. It is one of 4 former communities in Scioto County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 69th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Madland as a historical populated place on the South Webster 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 38.7634° N, 82.6818° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleSouth Webster
Elevation632 ft
Nearest living townSouth Webster, OH
Distance to it4.6 miles
GNIS feature ID1049397
Coordinates38.76341, -82.68183

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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.

Madland today, aerial view
Oak Hill quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1912, 1:62,500)

Left: Oak Hill 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

Madland is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is South Webster, OH (population 864), about 4.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 632 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 Madland?

Madland is in Scioto County, Ohio, at 38.7634, -82.6818.

How many ghost towns are in Scioto County?

Scioto County, Ohio has 4 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.