Ruthven is a ghost town in Wilcox County, Alabama.

It was located about 3 1/2 miles southwest of Pine Apple on Bear Creek along the Selma to Flomaton branch of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, what is now County Road 2.

Shortly afterwards, the town either disincorporated or lost its charter and rapidly declined.

Nearby to Ruthven was the community of Schuster, which was once the location of the Wilcox Mineral Springs Resort.

[2] Ruthven appeared on the U.S. Census of 1930 as an incorporated community.