List of ghost towns in Texas
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Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

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  • Acala, Texas
    Acala, Texas
    Acala, Texas is a ghost town in Hudspeth County, Texas, thirty-four miles northwest of Sierra Blanca and fifty-four miles southeast of El Paso, with a current population of about 25. Acala is located on Highway 20. A Spanish name for a type of cotton is where Acala got its name.-History:The area...

     (Hudspeth County)
  • Acme, Texas (Hardeman County)
  • Adkins, Texas
    Adkins, Texas
    Adkins is an unincorporated area in eastern Bexar County, Texas, United States. It lies on FM 1518, about 1 mile north of the Texas Pride Restaurant.-History:...

     (Bexar County)
  • Adobes, Texas (Presidio County)
  • Adobe Walls, Texas
    Adobe Walls, Texas
    Adobe Walls ia a ghost town in Hutchinson County, northeast of Stinnett, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was established in 1843 as a trading post for buffalo hunters and local Indian trade in the vicinity of the Canadian River. It later became a ranching community. Historically, Adobe Walls is the...

     (Hutchinson County)
  • Albuquerque, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Aldridge, Texas (Jasper County)
  • Allamore, Texas (Hudspeth County)
  • Alum, Texas  (Wilson County)
  • Anarene, Texas
    Anarene, Texas
    Anarene is a ghost town in Archer County, Texas, United States. Its name was used for the town portrayed in the film adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel, The Last Picture Show.- History :...

     (Archer County)
  • Arden, Texas (Irion County)
  • Arispe, Texas (Hudspeth County)
  • Aransas City, Texas
    Aransas City, Texas
    Aransas City is a ghost town on the tip of the Live Oak Peninsula in Aransas County, Texas near present-day Fulton. It served as a port on Aransas Bay at its confluence with Copano Bay during the 1830s and 1840s, but declined following its loss of a Republic of Texas customhouse to the rival port...

     (Aransas County)
  • Audra, Texas (Taylor County)
  • Auburn, Texas (Ellis County)
  • Audubon, Texas (Wise County)
  • Ayres, Texas (Washington County)
  • Bankersmith, Texas (Kendall County)
  • Bartonsite, Texas (Hale County)
  • Becton, Texas (Lubbock County)
  • Belcherville, Texas
    Belcherville, Texas
    Belcherville is an unincorporated community along U.S. Route 82 and Farm to Market Road 1816 in Montague County, Texas, United States. The population is less than 50.-History:...

     (Montague County)
  • Belknap, Texas (Young County)
  • Belle Plain, Texas
    Belle Plain, Texas
    Belle Plain is a ghost town in Callahan County, Texas, United States.-History:In 1875, a man named Nelson M. Smith purchased land on which he planned to build a college...

     (Callahan County)
  • Belzora, Texas (Smith County)
  • Ben Ficklin, Texas
    Ben Ficklin, Texas
    Ben Ficklin , Texas county seat of Tom Green County from 1875 to 1882, was located five miles south of Fort Concho on the east bank of the South Concho River.-History:...

     (Tom Green County)
  • Ben Wheeler, Texas
    Ben Wheeler, Texas
    Ben Wheeler is an unincorporated community in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States. It lies twelve miles southeast of Canton, and has an estimated population of 400.-History:...

     (Van Zandt County)
  • Benton City, Texas (Atascosa County)
  • Best, Texas
    Best, Texas
    Best is an unincorporated town in southwestern Reagan County in the western part of the U.S. state of Texas. It was portrayed in the Clyde Ragsdale novel “The Big Fist”.-Location and population:...

     (Reagan County)
  • Bexar, Texas (Bexar County)
  • Birdville, Texas (Tarrant County)
  • Bitter Creek, Texas
    Bitter Creek, Texas
    Bitter Creek was a ghost town in Nolan County, Texas, United States. Its location is not known, as the community no longer exists.Bitter Creek was was settled in the early 1880's by the Bardwell and Montgomery families. It is speculated that Bitter Creek was located south of present Sweetwater, in...

     (Nolan County)
  • Blumenthal, Texas
    Blumenthal, Texas
    Blumenthal is an unincorporated farming and ranching community on the Pedernales River in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located halfway between Fredericksburg and Stonewall on U.S. Highway 290, approximately at the intersection of Jung Road...

     (Gillespie County)
  • Boldtville, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Bomarton, Texas (Baylor County)
  • Boracho, Texas (Culberson County)
  • Bragg, Texas
    Bragg, Texas
    Bragg is a ghost town in Hardin County, Texas, United States, in the Big Thicket forest area of the southeastern part of the state. Sometimes referred to as "Bragg Station", this small community that flourished in the early 1900s lies ten miles west of Kountze....

     (Hardin County)
  • Brio Toxic, Texas
    Brio Superfund site
    The Brio Superfund site is a former industrial location in Harris County, Texas located at the intersection of Beamer and Dixie Farm Road. It is a federal Superfund site on which the South Bend neighborhood of about 670 homes, an elementary school, and a Little League baseball field had been built...

     (Harris County)
  • Britton, Texas (Ellis County)
  • Bronco, Texas (Yoakum County)
  • Browning, Texas (Smith County)
  • Bryant Station, Texas
    Bryant Station, Texas
    Bryant Station, Texas is an abandoned ghost town in Milam County, Texas, located twelve miles west of Cameron on the Little River. In the 1840s, Benjamin Bryant built a fort at the location to defend himself and others against Indians. The school consolidated with Buckholts in 1941 and Bryant...

     (Milam County)
  • Bucksnort, Texas  (Falls County)
  • Burning Bush Colony, Texas
    Burning Bush Colony
    The Burning Bush Colony was a short-lived Methodist intentional community in Smith and Cherokee counties in Texas, U.S.A., south of Bullard.-References:* , Handbook of Texas Online, University of North Texas at Denton....


    (Smith and Cherokee County)
  • Caddo, Milam County, Texas
  • Caddo, Wilson County, Texas
  • Cain City, Texas
    Cain City, Texas
    Cain City is a ghost town founded in 1915, southeast of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was established to be a station stop of the Fredericksburg and Northern Railway Company, of which the city's namesake Charlie Cain was a leading fundraiser. The town suffered...

     (Gillespie County)
  • Calaveras, Texas
    Calaveras, Texas
    Calaveras, Texas is an American community located in Wilson County, Texas. The population is approximately 100.Calaveras is southeast of San Antonio.-History :The settlement was originally named "Wright" when is was founded in 1860, in Bexar County...

     (Wilson County)
  • Calf Creek, Texas
    Calf Creek, Texas
    Calf Creek Texas is a small community located in southern McCulloch County, Texas onFarm Road 1311 approximately Southwest of Brady, Texas....

     (McCulloch County)
  • Callahan City, Texas
    Callahan City, Texas
    Callahan City is a ghost town in Callahan County, Texas, United States.- History :Founded in 1876, Callahan City was envisioned as a center of commerce and government for the then quite sparsely populated Callahan County...

     (Callahan County)
  • Calliham, Texas
    Calliham, Texas
    Calliham is an unincorporated community in northeastern McMullen County, Texas, United States, along State Highway 72 between Three Rivers and Tilden. Its elevation is 226 feet , and it is located at . Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 78007....

     (McMullen County)
  • Camey Spur, Texas (Denton County)
  • Camp Verde, Texas (Kerr County)
  • Canada Verde, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Candelaria, Texas
    Candelaria, Texas
    Candelaria is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States, with about 75 inhabitants.The town stands in the Chihuahuan Desert on the north bank of the Rio Grande, just across from the small Mexican town of San Antonio Del Bravo...

     (Presidio County)
  • Candlish, Texas (Bee County)
  • Canyon City, Texas
    Canyon City, Texas
    Canyon City is a former city located on the Guadalupe River in Comal County, Texas, United States, in what is now Canyon Lake.-History:Canyon City is said to be a small town on the Guadalupe River built in the mid-19th century in the Canyon Basin, north of San Antonio...

     (Comal County)
  • Caput, Texas (Gaines County)
  • Carlton, Texas
    Carlton, Texas
    Carlton is an unincorporated community located in Hamilton County in Central Texas. It lies in the northeastern part of the county and has an estimated population of 70.-History:...

     (Hamilton County)
  • Carpenter, Texas
    Carpenter, Texas
    Carpenter is a small unincorporated community in western Wilson County, Texas, United States. It lies between the towns of La Vernia and St. Hedwig on Farm to Market Road 1346. The community is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

     (Wilson County)
  • Carta Valley, Texas
    Carta Valley, Texas
    Carta Valley is a small unincorporated community in southwestern Edwards County, Texas, United States, in the western part of the state.-Population and location:...

     (Edwards County)
  • Carter, Texas (Parker County)
  • Casa Piedra, Texas (Presidio County)
  • Castolon, Texas (Brewster County)
  • Center Point, Camp County, Texas
    Center Point, Camp County, Texas
    Center Point is a ghost town settled in 1865 by freed slaves. It is located in Camp County in the U.S. state of Texas, southeast of Pittsburg at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2057 and County Road 4247. Center Point is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad...

  • Center Point. Hopkins County, Texas
  • Center Point, Panola County, Texas
  • Center Point, Trinity County, Texas
  • Center Point, Upshur County, Texas
  • Chalk Mountain, Texas
    Chalk Mountain, Texas
    Chalk Mountain is a small unincorporated community in Erath County, Texas, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 67 near the Somervell County line, about 25 miles southwest of Glen Rose.-Bengal Kitten:...

     (Erath County)
  • Cheapside, Texas (Gonzales County)
  • Chinati, Texas
    Chinati, Texas
    Chinati is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States.It is named after the surrounding Chinati Mountain Range. The word ´chinati´ derives from the Apache word ch'íná'itíh, which means gate or mountain pass.-External links:...

     (Presidio County)
  • Chinese Coal Mine, Texas (Jeff Davis County)
  • Chispa, Texas  (Jeff Davis County)
  • Cibolo Settlement, Texas (Comal County)
  • Cincinnati, Texas (Walker County)
  • Clairemont, Texas
    Clairemont, Texas
    Clairemont is a ghost town in and the former county seat of Kent County, Texas, United States. It is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 380 and State Highway 208, fourteen miles southwest of Jayton and forty-three miles east of Post in central Kent County...

     (Kent County)
  • Clara, Texas (Wichita County)
  • Clareville, Texas (Bee County)
  • Click, Llano County, Texas
    Click, Llano County, Texas
    Click is a ghost town in Llano County, Texas, on County Road 308, southeast of Llano and southwest of Kingsland. The community was named for settler Malachi Click. Many descendants of Malachi Click are buried in the Llano City Cemetery. Benjamin F. Lowe was appointed postmaster when Click got a...

  • Clinton, Texas (DeWitt County)
  • Coke, Texas (Wood County)
  • Coker, Texas (Bexar County)
  • Cold Springs, Texas (Uvalde County)
  • Coles Settlement, Texas (Washington County)
  • College Mound, Texas (Kaufman County)
  • Comyn, Texas
    Comyn, Texas
    Comyn is an unincorporated community located in Comanche County in Central Texas. Comyn is located in the east-northeastern part of the county along Farm-to-Market 1496 and the Fort Worth and Western Railroad, about 3 miles south of the junction of Texas State Highway 6 and FM 1496.-History:The...

     (Comanche County)
  • Concrete, Texas
    Concrete, Texas
    Concrete, Texas, USA was a town located in southwestern Guadalupe County alongside the present Farm Road 775, approximately two miles north of the town of LaVernia and between the communities of LaVernia and New Berlin....

     (Wilson County)
  • Cora, Texas (Comanche County)
  • County Line, Texas (Hale and Lubbock)
  • Crisp, Texas
    Crisp, Texas
    Crisp is a ghost town located in Ellis County in North Texas, United States. It was the birthplace of country music star Ernest Tubb. It is located 21 miles east of Waxahachie, Texas....

     (Ellis County)
  • Cryer Creek, Texas (Navarro County)
  • Curry, Texas (Stephens County)
  • Cuthbert, Texas (Mitchell County)
  • Dalby Springs, Texas
    Dalby Springs, Texas
    Dalby Springs is a small unincorporated town in Bowie County, Texas, United States, once noted for its red sulphur springs, but now a virtual ghost town. Dalby Springs was first settled around 1839 and became a town around 1856...

     (Bowie County)
  • Darilek, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Darwin, Texas
    Darwin, Texas
    Darwin was a coal mining town near Laredo in northwestern Webb County, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1882 after coal was found near the area. It was named after David Darwin Davis, the Cannel Coal Company owner. In 1914, the town's population grew to 800 and the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass...

     (Webb County)
  • Decker, Texas (Nolan County)
  • Deland, Texas (Erath County)
  • Denhawken, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Desdemona, Texas
    Desdemona, Texas
    Desdemona is a former oil boomtown and virtual ghost town located in Eastland County east of Abilene in West Texas. The community is located on Texas State Highway 16 at Farm-to-Market Roads 8 and 2214, approximately twenty miles southeast of the county seat of Eastland and twenty miles west of...

     (Eastland County)
  • Dewees, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Dias E Ocho Creek Camp, Texas (Presidio County)
  • Dido, Texas (Tarrant County)
  • Dillon, Texas
    Dillon, Texas
    Dillon was a town in Hopkins County, Texas, located four miles south of Saltillo. The town was named after E. F. Dillon, who started operating the post office in his store in 1903. The post office closed in 1906, and in the mid-1930's the town disappeared from highway maps....

     (Hopkins County)
  • Dixie, Texas (Grayson County)
  • Doan's Crossing, Texas (Wilbarger County)
  • Dodge City, Texas (Williamson County)
  • Doole, Texas
    Doole, Texas
    Doole is an unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 74 in 1990....

     (Concho County)
  • Doseido Colony, Texas
    Doseido Colony, Texas
    Doseido Colony was a small historic settlement which was located in western Wilson County, Texas one mile north of FM 775, at the intersection of county roads 321 and 361.-History:...

     (Wilson County)
  • Drumright, Texas (Glasscock County)
  • Dryden, Texas
    Dryden, Texas
    Dryden is an unincorporated community in south central Terrell County, Texas, United States.-History:The community was founded in 1882 and named for Eugene E. Dryden, the chief engineer of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, which was building its tracks through Terrell County and...

     (Terrell County)
  • Duffau, Texas (Erath County)
  • Dumas, Texas
    Dumas, Texas
    Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States. The population was 13,747 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Moore County. Located approximately fifty miles north of Amarillo, the city is named for...

     Wood County
  • Dye Mound, Texas (Montague County)

  • E through H

    • Eagle Creek, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Eagle Nest, Texas (Val Verde County)
    • Eckert
      Eckert, Texas
      Eckert is a ghost town, northeast of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. West of Willow City, on FM 1323, Eckert is at the junction of State Highway 16.White settlers came to the area in 1875 and built Mount Zion, a log church...

       (Gillespie County)
    • Eliasville, Texas
      Eliasville, Texas
      Eliasville is an unincorporated community in Young County, Texas, United States. Eliasville is located near the Clear Fork of the Brazos River at the intersection of Texas Farm roads 1974, 3109, and 701, close to the Stephens county line in southwest Young County about 20 miles from Graham...

       (Young County)
    • Elizabethtown, Texas
      Elizabethtown, Texas
      Elizabethtown, once known as Bugtown, is a ghost town located about fifteen miles southwest of Denton in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town derived its original name from the adjacent Elizabeth Creek.-History:...

       (Denton County)
    • Estacado, Texas
      Estacado, Texas
      Estacado is a ghost town in Crosby and Lubbock counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Located along Farm to Market Road 1527, it was established in 1879 as a Religious Society of Friends colony by Paris Cox and originally named Maryetta after his wife. In 1886, it became the first government seat...

       (Crosby/Lubbock County)
    • Etholen, Texas
      Etholen, Texas
      Etholen, Texas is an abandoned ghost town in Hudspeth County, Texas, allegedly four miles west of Sierra Blanca. Different sources claim different things about when the town was founded, but particularly it was during the 1880's. Etholen never grew to more than a small railroad station on the...

       (Hudspeth County)
    • Etna, Texas
      Etna, Texas
      Etna is a ghost town that was located near the site of present-day Bullard in northwestern Cherokee County, Texas, United States.-History:Etna was first settled by immigrants from the Old South around the time of the Civil War...

       (Cherokee County)
    • Fairview, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Farewell, Texas (Dallam County)
    • Farmer, Texas (Young County)
    • Fasken, Texas
      Fasken, Texas
      Fasken is a ghost town in east central Andrews County, Texas, United States. It rose and fell within the first half of the 20th century.-History:Founded in 1917 by the Midland Farms Company, it was originally part of a speculation enterprise...

       (Andrews County)
    • Fastrill, Texas (Cherokee County)
    • Flora, Texas (Smith County)
    • Fort Belknap, Texas (Young County)
    • Fort Griffin, Texas (Shackelford County)
    • Fort Holland, Texas (Presidio County)
    • Fort Martin Scott
      Fort Martin Scott
      Fort Martin Scott is a restored United States Army outpost near Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country, United States, that was active from 1848 until 1853...

       (Gillespie County)
    • Fort McKavett, Texas
      Fort McKavett, Texas
      Fort McKavett is a ghost town in Menard County, Texas, United States. It lies at the intersections of Farm to Market Road 864 and Farm to Market Road 1674, twenty miles southwest of the county seat Menard, Texas. Its elevation is 2,169 feet...

       (Menard County)
    • Fort Oldham, Texas (Burleson County)
    • Fort Phantom Hill
      Fort Phantom Hill
      Fort Phantom Hill was an United States Army and Confederate Army installation located at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Jones County, Texas. The fort was active from 1852 to 1853 and again from 1856 until the 1890s....

       (Jones County)
    • Fort Quitman, Texas (Hudspeth County)
    • Fratt, Texas
      Fratt, Texas
      Fratt, Texas is located in northeastern Bexar County, Texas, near the intersections of Interstate 35 and loop 410.-History:Fratt, Texas was founded by German settlers prior to 1900, later it became a flag station on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. In the 1930's the community had a store,...

       (Bexar County)
    • Frio Town, Texas
      Frio Town, Texas
      Frio Town, known as Frio City before 1886, is a ghost town immediately south of the Presido Crossing on the Frio River in Frio County, Texas, United States.-History:...

       (Frio County)
    • Frosa, Texas (Limestone County)
    • Fry, Texas (Brown County)
    • Fuqua, Texas (Liberty County)
    • Gansel, Texas (Concho County)
    • Gay Hill, Texas (Washington County)
    • Ghent, Texas (Cherokee County)
  • Girvin, Texas
    Girvin, Texas
    Girvin is an unincorporated community in Pecos County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 30 in 2000....

     (Pecos County)
  • Glenrio, Texas (Deaf Smith County)
  • Goforth, Texas (Hays County)
  • Goshen, Texas
    Goshen, Walker County, Texas
    Goshen, sometimes called Hutcheson, is an unincorporated area in Walker County, Texas, United States.-References:*Kingston, Mike . "Town Names: Past and Present", Texas Almanac. Dallas: Dallas Morning News, 2000, cited in GNIS...

     (Walker County)
  • Graball, Texas (Washington County)
  • Grapetown, Texas
    Grapetown, Texas
    Grapetown is an unincorporated farming and ranching community south of Fredericksburg, situated on South Grape Creek in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on the old Pinta Trail. Grapetown is noted for being the site of the first annual Gillespie County Bundes Schützenfest...

     (Gillespie County)
  • Grass Pond Colony, Texas
    Grass Pond Colony, Texas
    Grass Pond Colony was located at the site of several large natural ponds which remain filled by water year-round due to natural springs, it is located in the northern part of Wilson County, Texas, U.S.A. about five miles south of Sutherland Springs.-History:...

     (Wilson County)
  • Gray Mule, Texas (Floyd County)
  • Graytown, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Gruene, Texas
    Gruene, Texas
    Gruene is a former town in Comal County, Texas. Once a significant cotton-producing community along the Guadalupe River, the economy is now supported primarily by tourism...

     (Comal County)
  • Gulf, Texas (Matagorda County)
  • Gunsight, Texas (Stephens County)
  • Hackberry, Texas
    Hackberry, Texas
    Hackberry is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 544 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hackberry is located at...

     (Lavaca County)
  • Hagerman, Texas (Grayson County)
  • Hale City, Texas
    Hale City, Texas
    Hale City was a short-lived community in central Hale County, Texas, United States. It was located northwest of Hale Center, a city near Plainview, Texas....

     (Hale County)
  • Hart Camp, Texas (Lamb County)
  • Haslam, Texas (Shelby County)
  • Hayrick, Texas (Coke County)
  • Heckville, Texas (Lubbock County)
  • Hedwigs Hill, Texas
    Hedwigs Hill, Texas
    Hedwigs Hill, Texas is an unincorporated farming and ranching community, established in 1853 just off U.S. Highway 87, located south of Art in southern Mason County, Texas.-Establishment:...

     (Mason County)
  • Helena, Texas
    Helena, Texas
    Helena is a ghost town in Texas located approximately southeast of San Antonio in Karnes County. The seat of Karnes County from 1854 to 1894, Helena was once known as the self-proclaimed "toughest town on earth" in the mid-19th century...

     (Karnes County)
  • Helmic, Texas (Trinity County)
  • Hickory Flats, Texas (Bastrop County)
  • Hide Town, Texas (Wheeler County)
  • Hot Springs, Texas (Brewster County)
  • Huff, Texas
    Huff, Texas
    Huff is a former town in northeastern Archer County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area....

     (Archer County)
  • Hughes, Texas (Irion County)
  • Huron, Texas (Hill County)

  • I through L

    • Illinois Bend, Texas
      Illinois Bend, Texas
      Illinois Bend is an unincorporated communities on Farm to Market Road 677 twenty miles northeast of Montague in the extreme northeastern corner of Montague County, Texas, United States. The community, which initially was called Wardville, after local landowner C. M. Ward, was settled in 1862 by a...

       (Montague County)
    • Independence, Texas
      Independence, Texas
      Independence is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Texas, United States. Located twelve miles northeast of Brenham, it was founded in 1835 in Austin's colony of Anglo Americans. It became a Baptist religious and educational center of the Republic of Texas...

       (Washington County)
    • Indianola, Texas
      Indianola, Texas
      Indianola is a ghost town located on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. The community, once the county seat of Calhoun County, is a part of the Victoria, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1875, the city had a population of 5,000, but on September 15 of that year, a...

       aka Karlshaven (Calhoun County)
    • Indio, Texas (Presidio County)
    • Ireland, Texas (Coryell and Hamilton Counties)
    • Iron Bridge, Texas (Gregg County)
    • Islitas, Texas
      Islitas, Texas
      Islitas is a ghost town in southwestern Webb County, Texas, United States. It was established as a railroad stop and coal shipping center on the Rio Grande and Pecos Valley Railroad in 1882. In 1914 Islitas had its peak population of 300. After 1914 the local mines declined. In 1920 the last...

       (Webb County)
    • Izoro, Texas (Lampasas County)
    • Jakes Colony, Texas (Guadalupe County)
    • Jermyn, Texas
      Jermyn, Texas
      Jermyn is an unincorporated community in Jack County, Texas, United States. It lies in the far western corner of the county near the Young County line. As of the 2000 Census, its population was estimated at 75.- History :...

       (Jack County)
    • Jewel, Texas (Eastland County)
    • Jimkurn, Texas (Stephens County)
    • Jim Town, Texas (Dallas County)
    • Joinerville, Texas
      Joinerville, Texas
      Joinerville is an unincorporated community in west Rusk County, Texas, United States.The West Rusk Independent School District serves area students.-External links:**...

       (Rusk County)
    • Jonesboro, Texas
      Jonesboro, Texas
      Jonesboro is an unincorporated town in Coryell and Hamilton Counties in Central Texas. The Coryell County portion of the community is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area....

       (Coryell/Hamilton County)
    • Jud, Texas
      Jud, Texas
      Jud is a ghost town in extreme western Haskell County, Texas, United States. It lies on FM 617, west of Rochester. The Double Mountain Fork and Salt Fork Brazos River merge about west of present day Jud to form the Brazos River.-History:...

       (Haskell County)
    • Juno, Texas
      Juno, Texas
      Juno is a small unincorporated community in Val Verde County, Texas, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.-Population and location:...

       (Val Verde County)
    • Justiceburg, Texas
      Justiceburg, Texas
      Justiceburg is an unincorporated community in Garza County, Texas, United States. It is located along the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River, 15 miles southeast of the county seat, Post.-Geography:...

       (Garza County)
    • Kellyville, Texas (Marion County)
    • Kelm, Texas (Navarro County)
    • Kelsey, Texas
      Kelsey, Texas
      Kelsey is an unincorporated area in Upshur County, Texas, United States that was the longest-lasting settlement founded by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the state. Now a ghost town, it has been called the "mother colony" of Latter-day Saint colonies in...

       (Upshur County)
    • Kelso, Texas (Deaf Smith County)
    • Kent, Texas
      Kent, Texas
      Kent is an unincorporated village in Culberson County, in West Texas, United States. It lies just north of Interstate 10 at Exit 176, ten miles west of the beginning of Interstate 20 and four miles west of the eastern Culberson County boundary. It is sandwiched between the railroad, immediately...

       (Culberson County)
    • Kicaster, Texas
      Kicaster, Texas
      Kicaster is an unincorporated community in northwestern Wilson County, Texas, United States. It lies along Farm to Market Road 3432 twelve miles northwest of Floresville. The community was founded near the Kicaster Creek soon after the Civil War. A one room school was in operation by 1896 with an...

       (Wilson County)
    • Kimball, Texas (Bosque County)
    • Kingsmill, Texas (Gray County)
    • Kirk, Texas (Bexar County)
    • Knight, Texas (Polk County)
    • Knoxville, Texas (Cherokee County)
    • Kosciusko, Texas (Wilson County)
  • La Casa, Texas
    La Casa, Texas
    La Casa was a small community in southeast Stephens County, Texas, United States, around 1880. Today it is considered a ghost town.-External links:...

     (Stephens County)
  • La Lomita, Texas (Hidalgo County)
  • La Plata, Texas (Presidio County)
  • La Reunion, Texas
    La Reunion (Dallas)
    La Réunion was a socialist utopian community formed in 1855 by French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists near the forks of the Trinity River in Texas, USA. The Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas is about three miles east of the colony site. The founders of the community were inspired by the utopian...

     (Dallas County)
  • Lajitas, Texas
    Lajitas, Texas
    Lajitas is an unincorporated community in Brewster County, Texas, United States, in proximity to the Big Bend National Park.-Government:For many years the mayor of Lajitas was Clay Henry III, a "beer-drinking" goat...

     (Brewster County)
  • Langtry, Texas
    Langtry, Texas
    Langtry is an unincorporated community in Val Verde County, Texas, United States. The community is notable as the place where "Judge" Roy Bean, the "Law West of the Pecos", had his saloon and practiced a kind of law.-History:...

     (Val Verde County)
  • Las Cabras, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Las Islas, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Larissa, Texas (Cherokee County)
  • Laurelia, Texas
    Laurelia, Texas
    Laurelia was an unincorporated community in central Polk County, Texas, United States. The town was founded after Judge Claiborne Holshausen built a sawmill in 1880. The location grew into a town and was named for the laurel which dominatated the area. The mill remained the nucleus of the town,...

     (Polk County)
  • Lawson, Texas (Dallas County)
  • Leesville, Texas
    Leesville, Texas
    Leesville is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population 150 in 2000.Leesville is located at...

     (Gonzales County)
  • Lemonville, Texas
    Lemonville, Texas
    Lemonville is a ghost town that was the site of the Lemon Lumber Company in northern Orange County, Texas, United States, in the southeastern part of the state. Sometimes referred to as Lemon, it is located north of Orange and just east of Mauriceville...

     (Orange County)
  • Levita, Texas (Coryell County)
  • Linnville, Brazoria County, Texas
  • Linnville, Calhoun County, Texas
  • Lobo, Texas
    Lobo, Texas
    Lobo is a ghost town in Culberson County, Texas, United States that was abandoned in 1991.-Geography:Lobo is located at between the Van Horn Mountains and Wylie Mountains. It is situated along U.S...

     (Culberson County)
  • Locker, Texas (San Saba County)
  • Lodi, Texas
    Lodi, Texas
    Lodi is an unincorporated community in northern Marion County, Texas, United States. Its elevation is 253 feet . Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75564. The only business in Lodi, Texas is Lodi Drilling & Service Company Inc.It owes its name to the Italian...

     (Wilson County)
  • Loire, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Loma Vista, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Lone Oak Community, Texas
    Lone Oak Community, Texas
    Lone Oak Community is a small Texas community located at the intersection of US 87 and Loop 1604 in eastern Bexar County, Texas, near the town of St. Hedwig.-History:...

     (Bexar County)
  • Longfellow, Texas (Pecos County)
  • Lookout Valley, Texas (Bexar County)
  • Los Ojuelos, Texas
    Los Ojuelos, Texas
    Los Ojuelos is a ghost town near Mirando City in the southeastern part of Webb County, Texas, United States. Before its establishment, Indians camped near the only dependable water source in the semiarid area. The local springs attracted Eugenio Gutiérrez in 1810 and attempted to settle in the...

     (Webb County)
  • Lowell, Texas (Erath County)
  • Loyal Valley, Texas
    Loyal Valley, Texas
    Loyal Valley is an unincorporated farming and ranching community, established in 1858, and is north of Cherry Spring in the southeastern corner of Mason County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The community is located near Cold Spring Creek, which runs east for to its mouth on Marschall Creek in...

     (Mason County)
  • Luxello, Texas (Bexar County)
  • Lyra, Texas (Palo Pinto County)
  • Lytton Springs, Texas
    Lytton Springs, Texas
    Lytton Springs is an unincorporated community in northeastern Caldwell County, Texas, United States. Located along Farm-to-Market Road 1854, it lies approximately northeast of Lockhart, the county seat of Caldwell County.-References:...

     (Caldwell County)
  • Luckenbach, Texas
    Luckenbach, Texas
    Luckenbach is an unincorporated community thirteen miles from Fredericksburg in southeastern Gillespie County, Texas, United States, part of the Texas Hill Country. It consists of between South Grape Creek and Snail Creek, just south of U.S. Highway 290 on the south side of Farm to Market Road...

     (Gillespie County)


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    • Macksville, Texas (Comanche County)
    • Madera Springs, Texas (Jeff Davis County)
    • Manda, Texas (Travis County)
    • Mangum, Texas
      Mangum, Texas
      Mangum was an unincorporated town in Eastland County, Texas, United States. It was founded in the late 1890s and named for the Bob Mangum family. The town's population peaked in 1915 at 125; by 1936, only a handful of residents remained. Some time in the late 1980s, the town was removed from...

       (Eastland County)
    • Manning, Texas (Angelina County)
    • Mantua, Texas  (Collin County)
    • Marcelina, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Marysville, Texas
      Marysville, Texas
      Marysville is a small, unincorporated community in northwestern Cooke County, Texas, USA. It lies approximately 3 miles from the Texas-Oklahoma border.-History:...

       (Cooke County)
    • Maxdale, Texas (Bell County)
    • McGirk, Texas
      McGirk, Texas
      McGirk is a ghost town in Hamilton County near the Lampasas River in Central Texas. It was established in the 1870s and is believed to have become uninhabited by 1950.-References:*...

       (Hamilton County)
    • Medicine Mound, Texas
      Medicine Mound, Texas
      Medicine Mound is a ghost town in southeastern Hardeman County in West Texas. It consists of two buildings, the former Hicks-Cobb general store and the W.W. Cole Building, a combination bank, drugstore, gasoline station , and post office...

       (Hardeman County)
    • Mendota, Texas (Hemphill County)
    • Mentone, Texas
      Mentone, Texas
      Mentone is an unincorporated area in Loving County, Texas, the least populous county in the United States. As the county's only community, it serves as the county seat and has a 2010 population of 19, almost one-fourth of the county's 82 people. It is the least populated county seat in the United...

       (Loving County)
    • Mesquite, Texas (Borden County)
      Mesquite, Texas (Borden County)
      Mesquite is a ghost town in Borden County, Texas, United States. From its inception, Mesquite has remained a rural farming community. A school, established in 1905, served the area until sometime around 1930 when the building appears to have fallen into disuse. Today all that remains of Mesquite...

    • Millville, Texas (Rusk County)
    • Mineral Springs, Texas
      Mineral Springs, Texas
      Mineral Springs is a ghost town in Panola County, Texas, United States.-History:The town was once a flag stop on the Texas, Sabine Valley, and Northwestern Railway.-References:* Texas Handbook Online, University of Texas at Austin...

       (Panola County)
    • Minters Chaple, Texas (Tarrant County)
    • Mobeetie, Texas
      Mobeetie, Texas
      Mobeetie is a city in northwestern Wheeler County, Texas, United States, just across the Sweetwater Creek from Texas Route 152. The population was 107 at the 2000 census.-History:...

       (Wheeler County)
    • Monthalia, Texas
      Monthalia, Texas
      Monthalia is a small unincorporated rural community in Gonzales County, Texas. The community had only 65 people as of the 2000 census. It is primarily home to livestock ranchers and has no schools or businesses. As a testament to its livestock ranching, Nolan Ryan Beef operates several ranches...

       (Gonzales County)
    • Morales, Texas (Jackson County)
    • Morman Mill (Burnet County)
    • Morris Ranch, Texas
      Morris Ranch, Texas
      Morris Ranch is a ghost town, located southwest of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The area was begun as a thoroughbred horse ranch by New Yorker Francis Morris in 1856, and the town grew up around it. In 1962, the school district was merged with Fredericksburg...

       (Gillespie County)
    • Mustang Prairie, Texas (Falls County)
  • Naaman, Texas (Dallas County)
  • Narcisso, Texas
    Narcisso, Texas
    Narcisso is an abandoned town in southwest Cottle County, Texas, United States.-External links:...

     (Cottle County)
  • Neighborsville (Comal County)
  • Neuse Store, Texas (Comal County)
  • New Danville, Texas (Gregg County)
  • New Gulf, Texas (Wharton County)
  • Newport, Texas
    Newport, Texas
    Newport is on Farm to Market Road 1288 and SH 59 southeast of Henrietta in far southeastern Clay County, Texas. Farm to Market Road 2127 also passes just south of town. Its population is estimated at 70.-History:...

     (Clay County)
  • New Birmingham, Texas (Cherokee County)
  • New Sweden, Texas
    New Sweden, Texas
    New Sweden is a small unincorporated community in northeast Travis County, Texas, United States.The community was established in 1873 and was known then as Knight's Ranch. The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was established on February 23,1876 and initially carried the name Manor until...

     (Travis County)
  • Nix, Texas (Lampasas County)
  • Nockenut, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Nogal, Texas (Ochiltree County)
  • Norfleet, Texas (Lampasas County)
  • Nursery, Dallas County, Texas
  • Oakland, Texas
    Oakland, Colorado County, Texas
    Oakland is an unincorporated community in Colorado County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 80 in 2000. It is located southwest of the junction of Farm Roads 532 and 2144, approximately eight miles south of Weimar.Although it is...

     (Colorado County)
  • Ochoa, Texas (Presidio County)
  • O'Daniel, Texas (Guadalupe County)
  • Odds, Texas (Falls County)
  • Ohio, Texas (Hamilton County)
  • Ojo de Veranda, Texas (Presidio County)
  • Old Gomez, Texas (Terry County)
  • Olga, Texas (Nolan County)
  • Olmos, Texas (Guadalupe County)
  • Orla, Texas
    Orla, Texas
    Orla is a ghost town in Reeves County, Texas, United States. It lies about 38 miles north of Pecos. It is believed to have two residents and has its own post office, located on U.S. Route 285. The post office was established 26 December 1906 with Joshua D. McAdams as first postmaster....

     (Reeves County)
  • Orlena, Texas (Cooke County)
  • Otis Chalk, Texas (Howard County)

  • P through R

    • Padgett, Texas (Young County)
    • Pandale, Texas
      Pandale, Texas
      Pandale is a ghost town in Val Verde County, Texas, United States. It is a small town whose current population is smaller than in some previous years. It has been noted as a starting point for canoeing expeditions.-Location and Population:...

       (Val Verde County)
    • Pandora, Texas
      Pandora, Texas
      Pandora is an unincorporated community in Wilson County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 125 in 2000. Pandora is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area....

       (Wilson County)
    • Park Springs, Texas (Wise County)
    • Paso Real, Texas (Cameron County)
    • Peach Tree Village, Texas (Tyler County)
    • Pear Valley, Texas
      Pear Valley, Texas
      Pear Valley is an unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 37 in 2000.-External links:...

       (McCulloch County)
    • Pedernales, Texas
      Pedernales, Texas
      Pedernales, Texas was an early settlement of German immigrants in Gillespie County, located southwest of Fredericksburg near what is now Texas State Highway 16...

       (Gillespie County)
    • Penick, Texas (Travis County)
    • Perico, Texas
      Perico, Texas
      Perico, once known as Farwell, is a ghost town in Dallam County, Texas, United States. As late as 1980, the town had a business, a grain elevator and two known residents.-External links:* on Ghosttowns.com...

       (Dallam County)
    • Pescadito, Texas
      Pescadito, Texas
      Pescadito was a town near Laredo in southwestern Webb County, Texas, United States. Pescadito was a stop on the Texas Mexican Railway in 1881. In 1930 it had a population of 25. The community's main business was mesquite wood for railroads until coal began to be used in 1946.-References:*...

       (Webb County)
    • Peyton Colony, Texas (Blanco County)
    • Phelan, Texas (Bastrop County)
    • Phillips, Texas
      Phillips, Texas
      Phillips is a ghost town in Hutchinson County, United States.It was founded as Pantex, Texas. In 1938 Pantex and Whittenburg combined. The combined town was renamed Phillips for the dominant employer, the Phillips Petroleum Company by a vote of the people....

       (Hutchinson County)
    • Pilares, Texas (Presidio County)
    • Pine Spring, Texas (Culberson County)
    • Plata, Texas
      Plata, Texas
      Plata is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States.Population at the 2000 census was 37. 2006 census was 56.-External links:...

       (Presidio County)
    • Plemons, Texas
      Plemons, Texas
      Plemons is a ghost town in Hutchinson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located 10 miles southeast of Stinnett, and northwest of Borger, on Plemons Road, just north of the juncture of County Road R.-Establishment:...

       (Hutchinson County)
    • Plummer Crossing, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Poesta, Texas (Bee County)
    • Pontotoc, Texas
      Pontotoc, Texas
      Pontotoc is an unincorporated community on Pontotoc Creek, in northeastern Mason County, Texas, United States. The community is located at the juncture of Texas State Highway 71 and Farm to Market Road 501.-Settlement:...

       (Mason County)
    • Porterville, Texas
      Porterville, Texas
      Porterville is a ghost town in Loving County, Texas, United States.Porterville was established in 1905 by Dr. Phil Porter, a physician who relocated from Michigan due to what he believed were health benefits of living in the desert. At one point in time, the town was a bustling community, with a...

       (Loving County)
    • Port Sullivan, Texas (Milam County)
    • Porvenir, Texas (Presidio County)
    • Praha, Texas
      Praha, Texas
      Praha is an unincorporated community located in Fayette County, Texas, United States, approximately 53 miles southeast of Austin.-History:...

       (Newton County)
    • Preston, Texas
      Preston, Texas
      Preston, Texas, also known as Preston Bend was a prominent town located on the Red River in North Texas. It grew in the 19th century at the intersection of several military and trade roads and was an important crossing on the Shawnee cattle trail. Preston lost prominence after the MK&T railroad...

       (Grayson County)
    • Princeton, Newton County, Texas
  • Pringle, Texas
    Pringle, Texas
    Pringle is an unincorporated community in northern Hutchinson County, Texas, United States.The Pringle-Morse Consolidated Independent School District serves area students.-External links:...

     (Hutchinson County)
  • Proffitt, Texas (Young County)
  • Pumpville, Texas (Val Verde County)
  • Pyote, Texas
    Pyote, Texas
    Pyote is a town in Ward County, Texas, United States. The population was 131 at the 2000 census.-History:Pyote began as a small town. Its fortunes rose with oil, but its population decreased when the railroad was built away from the town. At one time Pyote had 3,500 residents...

     (Ward County)
  • Quigley, Texas (Jasper County)
  • Quihi, Texas
    Quihi, Texas
    Quihi is a ghost town in Medina County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Located north of Hondo, it sits at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2676 and Quihi Creek. In 1936, Quihi received Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Number 5537 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of its...

     (Medina County)
  • Quincy, Texas (Bee County)
  • Rath City, Texas
    Rath City, Texas
    Rath City was a frontier town which existed for less than five years and is presently a ghost town. The town was located on the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River fourteen miles northwest of Hamlin in southern Stonewall County, Texas, United States.-History:...

     (Stonewall County)
  • Rayner, Texas (Stonewall County)
  • Red Barn, Texas (Pecos County)
  • Red River Station, Texas
    Red River Station, Texas
    Red River Station once existed as a small community south of the Red River at Salt Creek in north western Montague County, Texas, United States.-History:...

     (Montague County)
  • Remlig, Texas (Jasper County)
  • Rheingold
    Rheingold School, Gillespie County, Texas
    Rheingold School is located at 334 Rheingold School Road, in Gillespie County, Texas.In 1949, the school was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District. The building is now used as a community center...

     (Gillespie County)
  • Ridout, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Rock Island, Washington County, Texas
    Rock Island, Washington County, Texas
    Rock Island was a settlement located on the Brazos River in Texas, United States, south of Graball, and northwest of Hempstead. The town once had a post office, church, and a highly acclaimed boys academy.-External links:*...

  • Roosevelt, Kimble County, Texas
    Roosevelt, Kimble County, Texas
    Roosevelt is a ghost town located 16 miles west of Junction on Farm to Market Road 291 in Kimble County, Texas, United States. In 1997, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 4343 was designated to acknowledge the community of Roosevelt, Texas.-History:...

  • Rooster Springs, Texas (Hays County)
  • Ross City, Texas (Howard County)
  • Ruidosa, Texas
    Ruidosa, Texas
    Ruidosa is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States.-Education:Ruidosa is zoned to schools in the Presidio Independent School District. In 2000 the population was 43-External links:...

     (Presidio County)
  • Runnels City, Texas (Runnels County)
  • Rustler Springs, Texas (Culberson County)


  • S through T

    • St. Mary's of Aransas
      St. Mary's of Aransas, Texas
      St. Mary's of Aransas is a ghost town near the present community of Bayside in Refugio County, Texas, United States. It served as a settlement and major port until the late 19th century after the emergence of Rockport.-History:...

       (Refugio County)
    • Salona, Texas (Montague County)
    • Salt Flat, Texas
      Salt Flat, Texas
      Salt Flat is an unincorporated community in northeastern Hudspeth County, Texas, United States. It lies along the concurrent U.S. Routes 62 and 180 north of the CDP of Sierra Blanca, the county seat of Hudspeth County. Its elevation is 3,730 feet . Although Salt Flat is unincorporated, it...

       (Hudspeth County)
    • Salt Gap, Texas (McCullouch)
    • Sam Fordyce, Texas (Hildago County)
    • Sanco, Texas
      Sanco, Texas
      Sanco, Texas is a near-abandoned unincorporated community in Coke County, Texas, sixteen miles northwest of Robert Lee east of Highway 208 on an unnamed county road. In 1990, the population was a mere thirty people.-References:...

       (Coke County)
    • Sandy Hills, Texas
      Sandy Hills, Texas
      Sandy Hills was a small historic settlement which was located in western Wilson County, Texas , five miles west of La Vernia at the intersection of county roads 321 and 361.-History:...

       (Wilson County)
    • Santa Rita, Texas (Cameron County)
    • Santo Tomás, Texas
      Santo Tomás, Texas
      Santo Tomás was a coal-mining town near Laredo in west central Webb County, Texas, United States. The town was founded in 1801 by Antonio Gonzales and was named in honor of Saint Thomas. During the colonial era the land was used primarily for ranching. Pure quality cannel coal was found and...

       (Webb County)
    • Saspamco, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Savage, Texas (Fannin, Crosby)
    • Senterfitt, Texas (Lampasas County)
    • Shafter, Texas
      Shafter, Texas
      Shafter is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States. The Texas Attorney General's Office gives a population of 11 as of the 2000 Census. It was named in honor of General William Shafter, who at one point commanded the nearby Fort Davis. In the early 1900s six silver...

       (Presidio County)
    • Shafter Lake, Texas
      Shafter Lake, Texas
      Shafter Lake is a ghost town in Andrews County, Texas, United States, located four miles west of U.S. Route 385 on the shores of Shafter Lake. It became a ghost town after the town lost an election for county seat of Andrews County.-History:...

       (Andrews County)
    • Shannon, Texas
      Shannon, Texas
      Shannon is an unincorporated community on Farm to Market Road 175 20 miles southwest of Henrietta in far south central Clay County, Texas, United States, approximately 1/2 mile north of the Jack County line.-History:...

       (Clay County)
    • Sher-han, Texas (Hansford County)
    • Sherwood, Texas
      Sherwood, Texas
      Sherwood is a ghost town in Irion County, Texas, United States. It served as the county seat until 1939, when it was supplanted by neighboring Mertzon.-History:...

       (Irion County)
    • Signal Hill, Texas (Hutchinson County)
    • Silver, Texas
      Silver, Texas
      Silver is an unincorporated community in northwestern Coke County, Texas, United States. Its elevation is 2,100 feet . Although Silver is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76949; the ZCTA for ZIP Code 76949 had a population of 30 at the 2000 census...

       (Coke County)
    • Sipe Springs, Texas (Comanche, Milam)
    • Sivells Bend, Texas
      Sivells Bend, Texas
      Sivells Bend is an unincorporated community on Farm to Market Road 1201 just four miles south of the Oklahoma border and 20 miles north of the county seat, Gainesville in Cooke County, Texas, United States.-History:...

       (Cooke County)
    • Slide, Texas
      Slide, Texas
      Slide is an unincorporated community in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. It lies at the junction of FM 1730 and FM 41, thirteen miles south of Lubbock, and has an estimated population of 44. The community is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:Established in the 1890s,...

       (Lubbock County)
    • Smeltertown, Texas (El Paso County)
    • Smithfield, Texas (Tarrant County)
    • Soash, Texas (Howard County)
    • Sowers, Texas
      Sowers, Texas
      Sowers, Texas is a ghost town located approximately 11 miles northwest of Dallas, Texas in Dallas County. Today, the once rural community is located entirely within the boundaries of Irving, Texas.Of the original townsite, only the cemetery remains....

       (Dallas County)
    • Spanish Fort, Texas
      Spanish Fort, Texas
      Spanish Fort is an unincorporated town in north central Montague County, Texas, United States at the end of Farm Road 103 one mile south of the Red River.-History:...

       (Montague County)
    • Spurlin, Texas (Hamilton County)
    • Starrville, Texas (Smith County)
    • Sterley, Texas (Floyd County)
    • Sterling, Texas (Robertson County)
    • Steward's Mill, Texas (Freestone County)
    • Stiles, Texas
      Stiles, Texas
      Stiles is a ghost town in Reagan County, Texas, United States, about north of Big Lake. As the only town in the area when Reagan County was established in 1903, Stiles was made the county seat...

       (Reagan County)
  • Sumpter, Texas (Trinity County)
  • Sunnyside, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Sutherland Springs (Wilson County)
  • Swartwout, Texas (Polk County)
  • Swastika, Texas (Hale County)
  • Sweet Home, Texas  (Guadalupe County)
  • Tarrant, Texas (Tarrant, Hopkins)
  • Tascosa, Texas
    Tascosa, Texas
    Tascosa was once the capital of ten counties and a rival of Dodge City, but it is now a Ghost Town. It is located in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle....

     (Oldham County)
  • Tee Pee City, Texas
    Tee Pee City, Texas
    Tee Pee City is a ghost town in eastern Motley County, Texas, United States.This ghost town is located "near the confluence of Tee Pee Creek and the Middle Pease River in eastern Motley County, began in 1875 as a trading post serving buffalo hunters and surveying parties...

     (Motley County)
  • Tehuacana, Texas
    Tehuacana, Texas
    Tehuacana is a town in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 307 at the 2000 census. From 1869 until 1902, the town was home to Trinity University.-Geography:Tehuacana is located at ....

     (Limestone County)
  • Telegraph, Texas
    Telegraph, Texas
    Telegraph is a ghost town on Texas State Highway 377, thirteen miles 13 miles southwest of Junction, in Kimble County, Texas, United States.-History:...

     (Kimble County)
  • Telico, Texas
    Telico, Texas
    Telico is an unincorporated community in east central Ellis County, Texas, United States.The area that became Telico was settled before 1856...

     (Ellis County)
  • Terlingua, Texas
    Terlingua, Texas
    Terlingua is a mining district in southwestern Brewster County, Texas, United States. It is located near the Rio Grande and the Texas villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas,as well as the Mexican village of Santa Elena. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in...

     (Brewster County)
  • Texana, Texas (Jackson County)
  • Texla, Texas
    Texla, Texas
    Texla is a ghost town in northern Orange County, Texas, United States, in the southeastern part of the state. It is located northwest of Orange, just west of Mauriceville. The site was originally called Bruce, after the postmaster Charles G. Bruce when the office opened in 1905...

     (Orange County)
  • Texon, Texas
    Texon, Texas
    Texon is a small unincorporated town in Reagan County, Texas, United States, in the western part of the state. The town is noted for its boom as an oil town and subsequent near abandonment.-Population and location:...

     (Reagan County)
  • The Grove, Texas
    The Grove, Texas
    The Grove is an unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is located some sixteen miles southeast of Gatesville, Texas in the eastern portion of the county.The Grove is located on Texas State Highway 36....

     (Coryell County)
  • Three Oaks, Texas (Wilson County)
  • Thurber, Texas
    Thurber, Texas
    Thurber is a coal-mining ghost town in Erath County, Texas, United States, located 75 miles west of Fort Worth. It currently has an overall population of about twenty five.-History:...

     (Erath County)
  • Tokio, Texas
    Tokio, Texas
    Tokio is an unincorporated community in Terry County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 24 in 2000.-External links:...

     (Terry County)
  • Tolbert, Texas Wilbarger County
  • Towash, Texas (Hill County)
  • Toyah, Texas
    Toyah, Texas
    Toyah is a town in Reeves County, Texas, United States. The population was 100 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Toyah is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....

     (Reeves County)
  • Toyahvale, Texas
    Toyahvale, Texas
    Toyahvale is an unincorporated community in southern Reeves County, Texas, United States. It lies along State Highway 17 and FM 3078 south of the city of Pecos, the county seat of Reeves County. Despite its similar name, Toyahvale is distinct from the town of Toyah, which lies 25 miles to...

     (Reeves County)
  • Trickham, Texas (Coleman County)
  • Tucker, Texas (Anderson County)
  • Tuckertown, Texas (Navarro County)
  • Tuff, Texas (Bandera County)
  • Tuleta, Texas
    Tuleta, Texas
    Tuleta is a census-designated place in Bee County, Texas, United States. The population was 292 at the 2000 census.Tuleta is on State Highway 181 twelve miles north of Beeville in north Bee County. It was founded by Peter Unzicker, a Mennonite minister, who brought a colony of Mennonites from...

     (Bee County)
  • Turpentine, Texas (Jasper County)

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    • Union Valley, Wilson County, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Unity, Texas (Wilson County)
    • Upland, Texas (Upton)
    • Upton, Texas
      Upton, Texas
      Upton is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States.-School:Upton is served by the Smithville Independent School District....

       (Bastrop)
    • Utica, Texas (Smith)
    • Vandenburg, Texas (Medina)
    • Vieja Springs, Texas (Presidio)
    • Virginia City, Texas
      Virginia City, Texas
      Virginia City was a ghost town in southwest Bailey County, Texas, United States"Virginia City was located two miles southeast of the present intersection of Farm roads 298 and 1731 in southwest Bailey County, twenty-five miles southwest of Muleshoe. It was platted on March 13, 1909, by Matthew C....

       (Bailey County)
    • Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas
      Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas
      Washington-on-the-Brazos is an unincorporated area along the Brazos River in Washington County, Texas, United States. It was founded when Texas was still a part of Mexico, and the settlement became the site of the Convention of 1836 and the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence...

       (Washington)
    • Watson, Texas (Red River, Comanche)
    • Welfare, Texas
      Welfare, Texas
      Welfare, Texas is an unincorporated farming and ranching community southeast of Waring on the Waring-Welfare Road in west central Kendall County, in the U.S. state of Texas...

       (Kendall County)
    • Wenasco, Texas (Jasper)
    • White City, Texas (Gaines)
    • White Way, Texas (Hamilton)
    • Who'd Thought It, Texas
      Who'd Thought It, Texas
      Who'd Thought It was a farming community in northern Hopkins County east of Tira and just north of Sand Hill off Farm Road 1536. It was probably established sometime after 1900. How the town acquired its unusual name is not known. At its height prior to World War II, Who'd Thought It had two stores...

       (Hopkins County)
  • Whon, Texas (Coleman)
  • Wild Cat Bluff, Texas
    Wild Cat Bluff, Texas
    Wild Cat Bluff was a settlement in northwestern Anderson County, Texas, United States.-References:*...

     (Anderson County)
  • Williams Ranch, Texas
    Williams Ranch, Texas
    Williams Ranch is the oldest settlement in Mills County, Texas, with the oldest known cemetery in the vicinity dating back to the mid-19th century. The location is about south of Mullin, and northwest of Goldthwaite, the county seat. When originally settled, Williams Ranch was located in the far...

     (Mills)
  • Winkleman, Texas (Waller)
  • Wintergreen, Texas
    Wintergreen, Texas
    Wintergreen is a ghost town in northeastern Karnes County, Texas, United States. It once stood at the intersection of the Victoria-San Antonio Roads and the lower Helena-Gonzales Roads. Wintergreen appeared on maps from 1858 to 1868, including an 1865 Civil War map.-Notes:...

     (Karnes)
  • Yegua, Texas (Washington)
  • Zeirath, Texas
    Zeirath, Texas
    Zeirath is a ghost town in eastern Jasper County, Texas, United States. The town was located along the railroad as many other Texas ghost towns once were....

     (Jasper)
  • Ziler, Texas (Howard)
  • Zorn, Texas
    Zorn, Texas
    Zorn, Texas is located in Northern Guadalupe County, Texas on US Highway 123 approximately thirteen miles north of the town of Seguin, Texas.-History:...

     (Guadalupe County)
  • Zella, Texas (McMullen)
  • Zodiac, Texas
    Zodiac, Texas
    Zodiac is a vanished Mormon settlement established in 1847 on the Pedernales River, located southeast of Fredericksburg, in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was the first Mormon colony established by Lyman Wight in Texas. The second settlement was Mormon Mill, Burnet County, Texas...

     (Gillespie)
  • Zuehl, Texas
    Zuehl, Texas
    Zuehl is a census-designated place in southwestern Guadalupe County, Texas, United States. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located on Cibolo Creek, it lies 14 miles southwest of Seguin. The population was 346 at the 2000 census. Once known as Perryman's Crossing, it was...

    (Guadalupe County)
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