San Toy, Ohio

Interactive map pinpointing the town

San Toy is a ghost town in southeastern Bearfield Township, Ohio, Perry County, Ohio, United States. A flourishing community in the early 20th century, it was a coal town created by the Sunday Creek Coal Company.

Decline

According to the 1930 census, San Toy was the town in the United States whose population had decreased the most per capita since the previous census (976 in 1920 to just 128 in 1930).^[1] In 1931, 17 of the 19 registered voters voted to abandon the town. Today approximately 50 people live in the area that was once San Toy. Many foundations and roads of the once busy town remain. A local road is named in its honor.

See also

• New Straitsville mine fire

References

• Ben Hayes, San Toy: A Ghost Town in the Hocking Valley Coal Fields (Ohio Folklore Society, 1959)

External links

39°39′22″N 82°02′09″W / 39.65611°N 82.03583°W / 39.65611; -82.03583

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Municipalities and communities of Perry County, Ohio, United States

County seat: New Lexington

Villages

• Corning
• Crooksville
• Glenford
• Hemlock
• Junction City
• New Lexington
• New Straitsville
• Rendville
• Roseville‡
• Shawnee
• Somerset
• Thornville

Townships

• Bearfield
• Clayton
• Coal
• Harrison
• Hopewell
• Jackson
• Madison
• Monday Creek
• Monroe
• Pike
• Pleasant
• Reading
• Salt Lick
• Thorn

CDPs

• Rose Farm‡
• Thornport

Unincorporated
communities

• Bristol
• Buckingham
• Chalfants
• Chapel Hill
• Clarksville
• Crossenville
• Ludington
• Maxville
• McCuneville
• McLuney
• Millertown
• Milligan
• Mount Perry
• Moxahala
• New Reading
• Oakfield
• Portersville
• Rehoboth
• Saltillo
• Sego
• Sulphur Springs

Ghost towns

• Dicksonton
• San Toy

Footnotes

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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