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Peerless

Ghost town · Delaware County, Ohio

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

Peerless is a ghost town in Delaware County, Ohio. It is one of 8 former communities in Delaware County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 30th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Peerless as a historical populated place on the Olive Green 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 40.3506° N, 82.7652° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleOlive Green
Elevation1,177 ft
Nearest living townMarengo, OH
Distance to it4.2 miles
GNIS feature ID1065491
Coordinates40.35062, -82.76518

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.

Peerless today, aerial view
Marengo quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)

Left: Marengo 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

Peerless is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Marengo, OH (population 240), about 4.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,177 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 Peerless?

Peerless is in Delaware County, Ohio, at 40.3506, -82.7652.

How many ghost towns are in Delaware County?

Delaware County, Ohio has 8 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.