WayfarrowPoe Mills
Ghost town · Centre County, Pennsylvania
Poe Mills is a ghost town in Centre County, Pennsylvania. It is one of 3 former communities in Centre County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 13th among the 45 Pennsylvania counties with a vanished settlement on record.
The U.S. Geological Survey lists Poe Mills as a historical populated place on the Coburn 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 40.8348° N, 77.4176° W.
Key facts
| USGS quadrangle | Coburn |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 958 ft |
| Nearest living town | Coburn, PA |
| Distance to it | 3.2 miles |
| GNIS feature ID | 2352263 |
| Coordinates | 40.83480, -77.41760 |
What's there now
Poe Mills is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Coburn, PA (population 127), about 3.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 958 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.
Nearby places
- Inglebyghost town · Centre County · 1.1 mi
- Logan Mills Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Clinton County · 11.9 mi
- Gross Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Snyder County · 12.4 mi
- Millmont Red Bridgecovered bridge · Union County · 14 mi
- Dreese's Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Snyder County · 14.9 mi
- Hayes Bridgecovered bridge · Union County · 18.2 mi
- Hassenplug Bridgecovered bridge · Union County · 20.2 mi
- Jay Street Bridgecovered bridge · Clinton County · 21.1 mi
- Lehman's, Port Royal Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Juniata County · 21.2 mi
- Dimmsville Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Juniata County · 21.5 mi
- Academia Pomeroy Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Juniata County · 23.8 mi
- North Oriental Covered Bridgecovered bridge · Juniata County · 24.4 mi
Questions
Where is Poe Mills?
Poe Mills is in Centre County, Pennsylvania, at 40.8348, -77.4176.
How many ghost towns are in Centre County?
Centre County, Pennsylvania has 3 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.
- 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.