WayfarrowVenable
Ghost town · Warren County, Ohio
Venable is a ghost town in Warren County, Ohio. It is one of 7 former communities in Warren County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 42nd among the 87 Ohio counties with a vanished settlement on record.
The U.S. Geological Survey lists Venable as a historical populated place on the Springboro 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 39.5278° N, 84.1460° W.
In old newspapers
The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Ohio before 1931 that mention “Venable”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 623 pages in all.
- 1826-05-09The National Republican And Ohio Political Register (Cincinnati [ohio])
- 1835-10-03The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- 1837-03-09The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- 1837-09-02Maumee Express (Maumee City, Ohio)
- 1840-09-03Democratic Standard (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio)
- 1841-09-22Daily Cincinnati Republican (Cincinnati [ohio])
Key facts
| USGS quadrangle | Springboro |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 938 ft |
| Nearest living town | Waynesville, OH |
| Distance to it | 3 miles |
| GNIS feature ID | 1052814 |
| Coordinates | 39.52784, -84.14605 |
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.
Left: Waynesville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 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
Venable is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Waynesville, OH (population 2,723), about 3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 938 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
- Edgewoodghost town · Warren County · 1.3 mi
- Kitchenerghost town · Warren County · 1.6 mi
- Corwin M. Nixon Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Warren County · 3.1 mi
- Manorghost town · Montgomery County · 4.3 mi
- Lelanghost town · Warren County · 5.3 mi
- Ridgeghost town · Warren County · 9.7 mi
- New Burlingtonghost town · Clinton County · 9.9 mi
- West Engle Mill Road Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Greene County · 12.5 mi
- Clarksville Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Clinton County · 12.5 mi
- East Engle Mill Road Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Greene County · 12.8 mi
- Stokesghost town · Warren County · 12.9 mi
- Germantown Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Montgomery County · 13.5 mi
Questions
Where is Venable?
Venable is in Warren County, Ohio, at 39.5278, -84.1460.
How many ghost towns are in Warren County?
Warren County, Ohio has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.
- USGS Geographic Names Information System (Domestic Names) — GNIS Domestic Names, feature record (public-domain)
- Wikidata — Wikidata item (CC0)
- Wikidata — Wikipedia article (linked as a source; text not used) (CC0)
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line and ACS — Census Gazetteer + ACS 5-year population (public-domain)
- Chronicling America (Library of Congress) — Chronicling America search (public-domain)
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.