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This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Ohio.
- Ai
- Atwood (Carroll County) - small town in Carroll County. Abandoned to make way for Atwood Lake in effort to control flooding
- Atwood (Summit County) - small town in southern Summit County.
- Blowville
- Blue Ball
- Claylick, Licking County, Ohio Located at the intersection of Claylick and the Licking River, this was one of the largest towns to be destroyed and caused primarily by 2 floods 1 in 1919 and 1 in 1959. After the 2nd flood the Dillon Dam floodplain project destroyed this town.[citation needed]
- Elk Lick (Destroyed and flooded after construction of William H. Harsha Lake)[citation needed]
- Boston, Ohio (aka "Helltown")
- Hibernia
- Ingham
- Knockemstiff
- Moonville
- New Burlington
- New Hampton
- Newville
- Oreton
- Providence
- Revenge
- Rumley[citation needed]
- Rural Hill (Once thriving, died after local slaughter house, the main employer, closed its doors)[citation needed]
- San Toy
- Tadmor [1]
- Sprucevale [2] (Canal town abandoned in 1870 with the closing of the canal, whose locks are still present)
- Utopia
- Winchester
- Wonderland