Goat Ranch

Ghost town · Winston County, Alabama

Gold Mine quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1958, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Goat Ranch is a ghost town in Winston County, Alabama. It is one of 19 former communities in Winston County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 11th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Goat Ranch as a historical populated place on the Gold Mine 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 34.0731° N, 87.6292° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangle	Gold Mine
Elevation	620 ft
Nearest living town	Natural Bridge, AL
Distance to it	2 miles
GNIS feature ID	2680854
Coordinates	34.07305, -87.62917

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What's there now

Goat Ranch is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Natural Bridge, AL (population 33), about 2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 620 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Larissa
ghost town · Winston County · 2.3 mi
Farriss
ghost town · Winston County · 4.7 mi
Black Swamp
ghost town · Winston County · 5.3 mi
Batts Nest
ghost town · Winston County · 5.9 mi
Bethel
ghost town · Winston County · 7.6 mi
Scoggins Bottoms
ghost town · Winston County · 8.2 mi
Kaeiser Bottoms
ghost town · Winston County · 8.9 mi
Tolen Hill
ghost town · Winston County · 9.3 mi
Pigeon Roost
ghost town · Winston County · 9.8 mi
Booger Tree
ghost town · Winston County · 10.1 mi
Bickford
ghost town · Winston County · 13.3 mi
Welbornville
ghost town · Winston County · 14 mi

Questions

Where is Goat Ranch?

Goat Ranch is in Winston County, Alabama, at 34.0731, -87.6292.

How many ghost towns are in Winston County?

Winston County, Alabama has 19 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

USGS Geographic Names Information System (Domestic Names) — GNIS Domestic Names, feature record (public-domain)
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line and ACS — Census Gazetteer + ACS 5-year population (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 2026-11-05.