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Marks

Ghost town · Stark County, Ohio

Canton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 1:62,500)
Canton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Marks is a ghost town in Stark County, Ohio. It is one of 16 former communities in Stark County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 4th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Marks as a historical populated place on the Canton East 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 40.7534° N, 81.2796° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCanton East
Elevation1,084 ft
Nearest living townEast Canton, OH
Distance to it2.5 miles
GNIS feature ID1057676
Coordinates40.75339, -81.27955

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.

Marks today, aerial view
Canton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 1:62,500)

Left: Canton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1901, 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

Marks is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is East Canton, OH (population 1,447), about 2.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,084 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 Marks?

Marks is in Stark County, Ohio, at 40.7534, -81.2796.

How many ghost towns are in Stark County?

Stark 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.