List of ghost towns in Washington
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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Washington, a state of the United States
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- AinsworthAinsworth, WashingtonAinsworth, Washington, was a ghost town in Franklin County, Washington. The town was on the northern bank of the mouth of the Snake River, in what is now Pasco, Washington....
- AlpineAlpine, WashingtonThere have been two villages named Alpine in Washington State. The earliest was located on the shores of Lake Cavanaugh in Skagit County from 1894-1898....
- AttaliaAttalia, WashingtonAtalia was a dryland farming community in Walla Walla County, Washington, located on the East shore of the columbia River some 8 miles downriver from Burbank. Attalia was a stop on both the Northern Pacific Railway and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company in 1909. During the 1920s, the town...
- BairdBaird, WashingtonBaird is a community in Douglas County, Washington. Baird is home of zipcode 99115 and the Highland Cemetery . Baird appears on a 1909 map of Douglas County, so it is at least that old. The town was located about 7 miles west of Coulee City, Washington, on the high ground between Moses Coulee...
- BlewettBlewett, WashingtonBlewett was a town in Chelan County, Washington, United States. The small mining town was established on the west side of Peshastin Creek in the foothills of the Wenatchee Mountains in the mid-1870s. The first mining claims were filed in 1874, and a stamp mill followed by 1878. A wagon road to...
- BodieBodie, Washington-Geography:Bodie is located at ,approximately 15 miles by stagecoach heading north of Wauconda along Toroda Creek off Washington State Route 20...
- BolsterBolster, WashingtonBolster is a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington. In 1899 the town was platted by J.S. McBride, who named it for Spokane financier Herman Bolster. He sold lots in the new town and at one time there were several stores, a post office, and three saloons. The small town of some thirty...
- Bordeaux
- BossburgBossburg, WashingtonBossburg is a ghost town in Stevens County, Washington, and is located on the east bank of the Columbia River just south of the Canadian border. Bossburg had a maximum population of 800 in 1892. The town was once named "Young America", although in 1896 it was renamed in honor of the town’s first...
- ChesawChesaw, WashingtonChesaw is a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington. Chesaw was named for the Chinese settler Chee Saw, who arrived in the mid-1890s and married a Native American woman. The town sprang up and thrived during the brief gold rush from 1896 to 1900....
- CurlewCurlew, WashingtonCurlew is an unincorporated community located in northwestern Ferry County, Washington, United States, between Malo and Danville on State Route 21. The BNSF Railway ran through the town. The historic Ansorge Hotel is located in Curlew.-Geography:...
- DisautelDisautel, WashingtonDisautel was a logging town in Okanogan County . Established around 1919, the community was located about 15 miles east of present-day Omak, Washington along what is now Highway 155, on the south side of Omak Creek. With a population of only about 100 people in 1929, the Biles-Coleman logging...
- DotyDoty, WashingtonDoty is an unincorporated town between Dryad and Pe Ell in Washington State, US. C. A. Doty built a sawmill here around 1900, and the town that sprang up around it was named after him. The town once boasted the largest sawmill in Lewis County. There is a Post Office, a General Store, two...
- DryadDryad, WashingtonDryad is a rural unincorporated town between Doty and Adna in Washington, USA. It is one of many lumber towns that were once on the Chehalis-South Bend branch of Northern Pacific Railway. The town was once two miles south of the present location, and was called Salal. It moved when Leudinghaus...
- ElbertonElberton, WashingtonElberton is a ghost town on the north fork of the Palouse River northeast of Colfax and northwest of Palouse in Whitman County, Washington, United States.-Geography:...
- FairfaxFairfax, WashingtonFairfax was a coal town in Pierce County . Mining lasted only until the minerals ceased to be economically viable following World War I...
- FranklinFranklin, WashingtonFranklin was a coal mining town located in east King County, Washington, near the current Hanging Gardens State Park.-History:The community was established in the 1880s, with a post office established by 1886. In May 1891, labor recruiters brought African-Americans to Franklin from Missouri,...
- FrankfortFrankfort, WashingtonFrankfort was originally homesteaded in 1876 in Pacific County on the mouth of the Columbia River near Portuguese Point. In 1890, a planned community was platted by two promoters Frank Bourne and Frank Scott . Together they envisioned a resort community at the location...
- GoshenGoshen, WashingtonGoshen was a pioneer town in western Whatcom County . It was a stop on the rail line of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad. It no longer exists...
- Grisdale
- HanfordHanford, WashingtonHanford was a small agricultural community in Benton County, Washington, United States. It was evacuated in 1943 along with the town of White Bluffs in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site...
- HavillahHavillah, WashingtonHavillah is a small unincorporated agricultural community located in northeastern Okanogan County, Washington, eighteen miles south of the Canadian border. Current census searches do not indicate a population count, but estimates are three to four hundred in the immediate and surrounding areas.The...
- Hot SpringsHot Springs, WashingtonHot Springs is a ghost town in King County, Washington, United States. Also known as Green River Hot Springs, the town was first settled under the name Kendon by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1886. Hot Springs was at one time home to a large sanatorium built around the natural hot springs in the...
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- KopiahKopiah, WashingtonKopiah was a town in Lewis County . Located 8 miles southeast of Centralia. A post office there began operating in 1906. The 1910 census shows 298 individuals, but the 1930 census shows only 115. The post office ceased operating in 1928....
- KrainKrain, WashingtonKrain was an unincorporated community in south King County, Washington, just north of Enumclaw. The area now centers on the intersection of SR 169 and SE 400th St. An inn and restaurant has been located at the corner since 1916, and the nearby Holy Family Krain Cemetery dates back to at least...
- LesterLester, WashingtonLester was a small town near Stampede Pass, just south of Snoqualmie Pass in King County, founded in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Railway ....
- LibertyLiberty, WashingtonLiberty is a small unincorporated community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. Following the discovery of gold in Swauk creek in 1873, Liberty was one of several gold-mining camps that sprang up. The Swauk creek discovery is notable for producing specimens of crystalline gold.Liberty...
- Malone
- McCormick
- MelmontMelmont, WashingtonMelmont is a ghost town in Pierce County, Washington, USA. The town was founded in 1900 when the Northwest Improvement Company, a subsidiary of Northern Pacific Railway, started the Melmont coal mine...
- MolsonMolson, WashingtonMolson is a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 23 at the 2000 census.-History:Molson was founded in 1900 by promoter George B. Meacham, and investor John W. Molson . The mining town's population boomed to 300 that year, and the town had a newspaper,...
- MonohonMonohon, WashingtonMonohon was a small town located on the east side of Lake Sammamish , near the present-day intersection of East Lake Sammamish Parkway and NE33rd Street in the city of Sammamish...
- Monte CristoMonte Cristo, WashingtonMonte Cristo is a ghost town northwest of Monte Cristo Peak, in eastern Snohomish County in western Washington.Prospecting in the region began in the Skykomish River drainage with the Old Cady Trail used for access. In 1882 Elisha Hubbard improved the trail up the North Fork Skykomish, from Index...
- NagromNagrom, WashingtonNagrom was a town in King County . A logging company town, Nagrom was located in the Green River watershed between Enumclaw and Lester. The town was built by the Morgan Lumber Company and named after E. G. Morgan, the company founder and owner...
- Old Torodah
- OrientOrient, WashingtonOrient is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Ferry County, Washington, United States. The Kettle River flows to the east of the town and marks the border with Stevens County. A BNSF rail line runs through the town alongside U.S. Route 395...
- OsceolaOsceola, WashingtonOsceola was an unincorporated community that existed in King County, Washington, around the turn of the 20th century, about two miles southeast of Enumclaw. Today not much remains except the last surviving one-room schoolhouse on the Enumclaw plateau; it is now the Osceola Community Club, a...
- Pinkney CityPinkney City, WashingtonPinkney City or Pinkneyville was a small community outside of Fort Colville in what is now Stevens County . Originally named for Colonel Pinkney Lugenbeel, commander at the fort in the early 1860s...
- QueetsQueets, WashingtonQueets is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Washington, United States. It is near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, located just north of the Grays Harbor County county line along the Queets River, at the northern edge of the Quinault Indian Reservation. The community is...
- Ruby City 48°29′52"N 119°43′34"W, NOT the Ruby in Pend Oreille County county
- SeabeckSeabeck, WashingtonSeabeck is a former mill town in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, on Hood Canal.- History :The name Seabeck comes from the Twana /ɬqábaqʷ/, from /ɬ-/, "far", /qab/, "smooth, calm", and /-aqʷ/, "water"....
- SheridanSheridan, WashingtonSheridan was a small town in southeast King County . Some amount of silver mining went on in Sheridan in the 1890s. There was a post office in Sheridan from 1892 to 1895. In addition, there was a hotel, store and a mill.-References:...
- ShermanSherman, WashingtonSherman, Washington, is a ghost town in Lincoln County, located north of Wilbur, Washington, USA. Sherman, like many small towns in eastern Washington, sprang up in the agricultural boom of the 1880s and 1890s, spawned by the federal government's many homesteading acts...
- Skagit CitySkagit City, WashingtonSkagit City was a town at the divergence of the North and South Forks of the Skagit River, in the U.S. state of Washington. The Barker's Trading Post along the river, opened in 1869, was partially or fully responsible for drawing people to settle at the townsite, which became an important river...
- TonoTono, WashingtonTono, Washington is a ghost town in Southwest Washington. It was a company-owned mining town founded in 1907 by the Washington Union Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad to supply coal for their steam locomotives...
- TrinidadTrinidad, Washington--Uncle Bean 04:48, 16 November 2011 Trinidad is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington, and a ghost town. The town consists of Crescent Bar Road NW and three unnamed access roads , between Quincy and Wenatchee...
- Trinity
- Vail
- Walville
- WellingtonWellington, WashingtonWellington was a small unincorporated railroad community on the Great Northern Railway in northeastern King County, Washington. Founded in 1893, it was located at the west portal of the original Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass...
- WestonWeston, WashingtonWeston, Washington, began life sometime in 1887. Not much is known about this tiny railway town other than at some point it was home to some railway facilities for the Northern Pacific Railway, including a possible turntable, a roundhouse for extra steam engines to help trains to get up the steep...
- White BluffsWhite Bluffs, WashingtonWhite Bluffs was an agricultural town in Benton County, Washington, United States. It was evacuated in 1943 along with the town of Hanford to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site....