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Troy

Ghost town · Sumter County, Alabama

Whitfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)
Whitfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Troy is a ghost town in Sumter County, Alabama. It is one of 3 former communities in Sumter County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 25th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Troy as a historical populated place on the Whitfield 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 32.3679° N, 88.0425° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWhitfield
Elevation143 ft
Nearest living townBellamy, AL
Distance to it8.4 miles
GNIS feature ID134276
Coordinates32.36792, -88.04252

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.

Troy today, aerial view
Whitfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: Whitfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000), 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

Troy is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bellamy, AL (population 190), about 8.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 143 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 Troy?

Troy is in Sumter County, Alabama, at 32.3679, -88.0425.

How many ghost towns are in Sumter County?

Sumter County, Alabama has 3 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 2026-11-05.