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Sunshine

Ghost town · Brown County, Ohio

Higginsport quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)
Higginsport quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sunshine is a ghost town in Brown County, Ohio. It is one of 5 former communities in Brown County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 59th among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sunshine as a historical populated place on the Hamersville 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 38.9070° N, 83.9258° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHamersville
Elevation877 ft
Nearest living townGeorgetown, OH
Distance to it3 miles
GNIS feature ID1065487
Coordinates38.90701, -83.92576

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.

Sunshine today, aerial view
Higginsport quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 1:62,500)

Left: Higginsport quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1931, 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

Sunshine is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Georgetown, OH (population 4,147), about 3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 877 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 Sunshine?

Sunshine is in Brown County, Ohio, at 38.9070, -83.9258.

How many ghost towns are in Brown County?

Brown 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.