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Simms

Ghost town · Greene County, Ohio

Dayton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1904, 1:62,500)
Dayton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1904, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Simms is a ghost town in Greene County, Ohio. It is one of 5 former communities in Greene County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 61st among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Simms as a historical populated place on the Fairborn 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 39.8098° N, 84.0738° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleFairborn
Elevation797 ft
Nearest living townWright-Patterson AFB, OH
Distance to it1.6 miles
GNIS feature ID1067588
Coordinates39.80978, -84.07383

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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.

Simms today, aerial view
Dayton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1904, 1:62,500)

Left: Dayton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1904, 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

Simms is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (population 1,560), about 1.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 797 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 Simms?

Simms is in Greene County, Ohio, at 39.8098, -84.0738.

How many ghost towns are in Greene County?

Greene 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.