WayfarrowMerrillsville
Ghost town · St. Clair County, Michigan
Merrillsville is a ghost town in St. Clair County, Michigan. It is the only former community in St. Clair County recorded on the federal names register, out of 39 across Michigan.
The U.S. Geological Survey lists Merrillsville as a historical populated place on the Yale 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 43.1500° N, 82.8139° W.
Key facts
| USGS quadrangle | Yale |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 796 ft |
| Nearest living town | Yale, MI |
| Distance to it | 1.7 miles |
| GNIS feature ID | 2582232 |
| Coordinates | 43.15000, -82.81389 |
What's there now
Merrillsville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Yale, MI (population 2,157), about 1.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 796 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.
Nearby places
- Pine Hillghost town · Sanilac County · 19.9 mi
- Fort Gratiot Lightlighthouse · St. Clair County · 22.1 mi
- Port Sanilac Lightlighthouse · Sanilac County · 23.7 mi
- Peche Island Rear Range Lightlighthouse · St. Clair County · 34.1 mi
- St. Clair Flats Rear Range Lightlighthouse · St. Clair County · 42.7 mi
- St. Clair Flats Range Front Lightlighthouse · St. Clair County · 42.8 mi
- St. Clair Flats Front and Rear Range Lightlighthouse · St. Clair County · 42.8 mi
- Lake St. Clair lightlighthouse · Macomb County · 47.5 mi
- Zehnder's Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Saginaw County · 48.2 mi
- Harbor Beach Lightlighthouse · Huron County · 49 mi
- 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.