List of ghost towns in Michigan
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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

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  • Antrim City
  • Aral
  • Atkinson
  • Atlantic Mine
  • Baltic
  • Berringer Corners
  • Berryville
  • Bertrand
  • Big Rock
  • Bingham
  • Bolton
  • Bond's Mill
  • Branch (in Branch County)
  • Brookside
  • Butternut
  • Calvin Center
  • Cambridge Junction
  • Central
  • Chestonia
    Chestonia Township, Michigan
    Chestonia Township is a civil township of Antrim County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 546 at the 2000 census. From the 1901 to 1932, the junction of the East Jordan and Southern and the Detroit and Charlevoix railroads lied within the township.-Geography:According to the United...

  • Cleon
  • Clifton
    Clifton, Michigan
    Clifton was a community in Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, that was founded in support of the Cliff mine—a mine opened in 1845 by the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company after copper was discovered there. It is located between Calumet and Eagle Harbor, off of Cliff Drive, alongside US...

    , also known as Cliff
  • Colonville
  • Copper Falls Mine
  • Crawfords Quarry
  • Crescent
  • Crofton
  • Damon
  • Deward
  • Dighton
  • Eckford
  • Emerson
  • Eschol
  • Essex
  • Falmouth
  • Fayette
    Fayette Historic State Park
    Fayette Historic State Park is a state park and historic townsite near Fayette in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located on the Big Bay de Noc of Lake Michigan on the southern side of the Upper Peninsula, it was the site of an industrial community that manufactured charcoal pig iron between 1867 and...

  • Federman
  • Fiborn Quarry
  • Fish Lake
  • Fleming
  • Frederick
    Frederick, Michigan
    Frederick, Michigan, also known as Casino, was a community in Clinton Charter Township of Macomb County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was located on an oxbow of the Clinton River southwest of present-day Mt. Clemens.-History:...

  • Gay
    Gay, Michigan
    Gay is an unincorporated community in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is 12 miles from Lake Linden on Copper Island at the western end of the Upper Peninsula. Local government is provided by Sherman Township. As of 2000, its population is 60....

  • Geels
  • Geloster
  • Gibbs City
  • Grafton
  • Goo
  • Hallock
  • Harlan
  • Harietta
  • Havre
  • Henry
  • Herron
  • Isadore
  • Jacktown
    Jacktown, Michigan
    Jacktown was a small town in Empire Township, Leelanau County, Michigan, United States located off Oviatt/County Line Road near Empire in the early 1900s...

  • Jennings
  • Kensington
  • Leer
  • Lupton
  • Mabel
  • Mandan, Keweenaw County
    Mandan, Keweenaw County, Michigan
    Mandan is a ghost town in Grant Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan, on U.S. Route 41, about twelve miles south of Copper Harbor, Michigan. It was the site of the Mandan Mine and the Medora Mine, two copper mines which were organized in 1864 and worked intermittently until their abandonment in 1909...

  • Manseau
  • Mansfield
  • Marlborough
  • Mentha
  • Meredith
  • Metz
  • Milton
    Chesterfield Township, Michigan
    Chesterfield Charter Township is a charter township of Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 37,405. The 2008 census estimate places the population at 44,612. The township was organized in 1842, formed out of a portion of Macomb Township...

  • Mitchell
  • Mottville
  • Nessen City
  • Nicholsville
  • Nonesuch Mine
    Nonesuch Mine
    The Nonesuch Mine is an abandoned copper mine and small ghost town in the southeast corner of the Porcupine Mountains State Park in Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon County, near Silver City, Michigan, United States. The area was given its name soon after Ed Less discovered the Nonesuch vein of copper...

  • North Unity
  • Onominee
  • Park Lake
  • Peacock
  • Pennock
  • Pere Cheney
    Pere Cheney, Michigan
    Pere Cheney, also called Cheney and Center Plains, was a village located in Crawford County, Michigan in the late 19th century. Established in 1874 around the sawmill of George M. Cheney, it served as the temporary county seat when Crawford County was officially organized in 1879, though it soon...

  • Pinnebog
    Port Crescent State Park
    Port Crescent State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan. The park is located in Huron County at the tip of The Thumb of Michigan...

  • Pinnepog
  • Podunk
  • Pokagon
  • Port Sheldon
  • Potts (McKinley)
  • Print (Griner Station)
  • Quinn
    Quinn, Michigan
    The former settlement of Quinn, Michigan, was once located in Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan on Gratiot past mile marker 16.-History:...

  • Rattle Run
  • Sharon
  • Shavehead
  • Shelldrake
    Shelldrake, Michigan
    Shelldrake is a ghost town in Whitefish Township, Chippewa County, Michigan, United States, about south of Whitefish Point, Michigan at the mouth of the Shelldrake River on Whitefish Bay. It is listed on the Michigan Historic Register. Prior to European settlement it supported a seasonal Native...

  • Shiawassee Town
  • Sigma
  • Singapore
    Singapore, Michigan
    Singapore, perhaps Michigan's most famous ghost town, is one of the casualties of the four great fires that ravaged the northern midwest on October 8, 1871...

  • South Assyria
  • South Boardman
  • Springvale
  • Stittsville
  • Stover
  • Stratford
  • Superior
  • Temple
  • Tunk
  • Union
  • Vermilion
    Vermilion Point
    Vermilion Point is a remote, undeveloped shore with a rich history lying west of Whitefish Point, Michigan, on a stretch of Lake Superior’s southeast coast known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes" or, in the title of a book by noted Great Lakes maritime historian , ""...

  • Volinia
  • Watervale
  • Wekwagamaw
  • Wetzell
  • Whiskey Creek
  • Whitefish Point
  • Wilson
    Wilson, Michigan
    Wilson is an unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States. Wilson is located in Harris Township along U.S. Route 2, U.S. Route 41 and the Canadian National Railway, east-northeast of Powers...



Several Native American ghost villages also dot the Lower Peninsula.

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