List of ghost towns in the United States
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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in the United States
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Alaska

  • Afognak
    Afognak, Alaska
    Afognak was an Alutiiq village on the island of Afognak in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. It was located on Afognak Bay on the southwest coast of the island, north of Kodiak Island.- History :...

  • Cape York
  • Chena
    Chena, Alaska
    For information on the modern town sometimes known by the name of Chena, go to Chena Hot Springs, Alaska.Chena was a small town in interior Alaska near the confluence of the Chena and Tanana rivers whose heyday was in the first two decades of the 1900s, with a peak population of about 400 in 1907...

  • Chisana
    Chisana, Alaska
    Chisana is a census-designated place in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the CDP was 0...

  • Council
    Council, Alaska
    Council is an abandoned townsite in the Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.- Geography :Council is located at about , about 57 miles east by northeast of Nome. It is located on the banks of the Niukluk River on the central Seward Peninsula....

  • Curry
  • Dyea
    Dyea, Alaska
    Dyea is a former town in the U.S. state of Alaska. A few people live on individual small homesteads in the valley; however, it is largely abandoned. It is located at the convergence of the Taiya River and Taiya Inlet on the south side of the Chilkoot Pass within the limits of the Municipality of...

  • Flat
    Flat, Alaska
    Flat is a census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the CDP was 0.- History :...

  • Gilmore
  • Iditarod
    Iditarod, Alaska
    Iditarod is an abandoned town in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.- Geography :It is on a horseshoe lake that was once a bend in the Iditarod River, northwest of Flat, ultimately flowing into the Yukon river.- History :...

  • Independence Mine
  • Kalakaket
  • Katalla
    Katalla, Alaska
    Katalla is a ghost town in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, southeast of Cordova. The name of this town was sometimes spelled Catalla. It is now abandoned.- Geography :...

  • Kennicott
    Kennicott, Alaska
    Kennecott, also known as Kennecott Mines or AHRS Site No. XMC-001, is an abandoned mining camp in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines. It is located beside the Kennicott Glacier, northeast of Valdez, inside Wrangell-St....

  • Kern
  • Kijik
    Kijik, Alaska
    Kijik is a ghost town in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. An Eskimo village that was established on the shores of Lake Clark in the Alaska Range, its population was recorded at 91 in the 1880 United States Census and declined thereafter, falling to approximately 25 individuals by...

  • King Island
    King Island, Alaska
    King Island is an island in the Bering Sea, west of Alaska. It is about west of Cape Douglas and is south of Wales, Alaska....

  • Knik
    Knik, Alaska
    -Alaska:* Knik, Alaska, a ghost town located southwest of Wasilla. The townsite, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, lies within the Knik-Fairview census-designated place boundaries .-Census-designated places:* Knik-Fairview, Alaska...

  • Kwigiumpainukamiut
    Kwigiumpainukamiut, Alaska
    Kwigiumpainukamiut is a ghost town in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States located between Chuathbaluk and Napaimute, directly across the river from Kolmakoff Island. It is a clearing about 200 yards long. In the early spring, it is covered with tan-colored grass and is easier to see.-Further...

  • Loring
  • Mary's Igloo
    Mary's Igloo, Alaska
    Mary's Igloo is an abandoned village located in Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.- Geography :Mary's Igloo is located at .Mary's Igloo is located on the northwest bank of the Kuzitrin River, on the Seward Peninsula...

  • Meehan
  • Ohagamiut
    Ohagamiut, Alaska
    Ohagamiut was a Yup'ik village along the Kuskokwim River in the Bethel Census Area of the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska, located between Crow Village and Kalskag. It was abandoned in the 1940s as residents relocated to Kalskag, Aniak, Bethel and other towns...

  • Olnes
  • Ophir
    Ophir, Alaska
    Ophir is an unincorporated area located in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.It was named by miners after the wealthy land of Ophir mentioned in the Old Testament. The area was the site of a gold rush in 1906. Ophir reached a peak population of 122 in 1910.Ophir is now...

  • Pedro
  • Port Wakefield
    Port Wakefield, Alaska
    Port Wakefield, Alaska is a ghost town on the north-east coat of Raspberry Island in the Kodiak Archipelago located in the Gulf of Alaska.It was established shortly after World War II by Lowell A...

  • Portage
    Portage, Alaska
    Portage is a former settlement on Turnagain Arm in Alaska, about south of Anchorage. The town was destroyed almost entirely in the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake when the ground in the area sank about six feet, putting most of it below sea level. All that remains today are the ruins of a few...

  • Prospect Creek
    Prospect Creek, Alaska
    Prospect Creek is a very small settlement approximately 180 miles north of present day Fairbanks and 25 miles southeast of present day Bettles, Alaska. Years ago it was home to numerous mining expeditions and the camp for the building of the Alaskan pipeline. Today, it is mostly desolate with...

  • Seaside
  • Snettisham
    Snettisham, Alaska
    Snettisham is a locale and former populated place in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. Based on the mainland coast of Stephens Passage, it is southeast of the city of Juneau. The area was named by George Vancouver in 1794...

  • Speel River
  • Sulzer
  • Three Saints Bay
    Three Saints Bay, Alaska
    Three Saints Bay is a -long inlet on the southeast side of Kodiak Island in southern Alaska, North of Sitkalidak Strait. It is southwest of Kodiak....

  • Unga
    Unga, Alaska
    Unga is a ghost town on Unga Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, about 2 miles west of Sand Point. The total length of the island is 15 miles...


Connecticut

  • Bara-Hack
    Bara-Hack, Connecticut
    Bara-Hack is a ghost town in the U.S. state of Connecticut, near Massachusetts. -History:Also called the "Haunted Village of Lost Voices", Bara Hack was located in Pomfret, Connecticut, and was abandoned after the Civil War. According to one website, "a pair of Welsh families first...

  • Cuties Island
    Cuties Island
    Cuties Island is a small island and ghost town off of the coast of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. The island was home to a house that a man built and lived in some time during the 1940s or 1950s. He lived on the island until the house burned down. There were no fire boats at the time so...

  • Dudleytown
    Dudleytown, Connecticut
    Dudley Town, in Cornwall, Connecticut, otherwise known as the Village of the Damned is a ghost town, founded as a small settlement in the mid-1740s.-History:...

  • Gay City
  • Little People Village
  • Pleasure Beach
    Pleasure Beach
    Pleasure Beach is the Bridgeport portion of a Connecticut barrier beach that extends 2-1/2 miles westerly from Point No Point...


Delaware

  • Banning
    Banning, Delaware
    Banning, Delaware, USA was a stop in Cedar Creek Hundred on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood positioned at the NE corner of what now is Rd 44/Blacksmith Shop Rd and DE-16 W/Beach Hwy. After the railroad closed down and the tracks were removed, all Banning,...

  • Glenville
    Glenville, Delaware
    Glenville, Delaware is a ghost town in Delaware, United States, at . The community consisted of a development on Bread and Cheese Island, on the east bank of the Red Clay Creek near its mouth, just south of Delaware Route 4 near Stanton...

  • New Market
    New Market, Delaware
    New Market was a small town in the U.S. state of Delaware located between Ellendale and Milton. At the current crossroads of Holly Tree Road and Reynolds Pond Road just east of Ellendale was the New Market Church, around which the town was located....

  • Owens Station
    Owens Station, Delaware
    Owens Station, Delaware was a town in Delaware, U.S.A.It was a stop on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood. After the railroad closed down and the tracks were removed, all property owned by the railroad was returned to its previous landowners and several small...

  • Saint Johnstown
    Saint Johnstown, Delaware
    Saint Johnstown, Delaware, USA was a stop on the now defunct Queen Anne's Railroad line between Ellendale and Greenwood. After the railroad closed down and the tracks were removed, all property owned by the railroad was returned to its previous landowners and several small towns built around the...

  • Zwaanendael
    Zwaanendael Colony
    Zwaanendael or Swaanendael was a short lived Dutch colonial settlement in Delaware. It was built in 1631. The name is archaic Dutch spelling for "swan valley" or dale...

     (first settlement in the state)

Hawaii

  • Apua
    Apua, Hawaii
    Āpua was an ancient village in the Puna district on the southern coast of the Island of Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands. A small fishing village was located at about , an elevation about above sea level....

  • Kaimu
  • Kalapana
  • Kapoho
  • Mana
  • Waialee

Idaho

  • Bayhorse
    Bayhorse, Idaho
    Bayhorse is a ghost town in Custer County, Idaho, United States, founded in 1877. After a new gold mine failed, silver was discovered in the area and a mine was started. Bayhorse was originally established by the silver mine....

  • Bonanza
    Bonanza, Idaho
    Bonanza is a ghost town in Custer County, Idaho, United States. It was originally established as a mining town. As of 2005, the land is privately owned but open to the public. Custer has a museum for the gold-rush era where visitors can experience the lives of the citizens of Custer and can...

  • Boulder City, Idaho
  • Burke
    Burke, Idaho
    Burke is a ghost town in Burke-Canyon in Shoshone County, Idaho, United States. Once a thriving silver and lead town, it is now far smaller than at its height. In 2002, about 300 people lived in or nearby Burke Canyon...

  • Cobalt
    Cobalt, Idaho
    Cobalt is an unincorporated community in Lemhi County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho....

  • Comeback Mining Camp
  • Custer
    Custer, Idaho
    Custer is a ghost town in Custer County, Idaho, United States. Established in 1877, it is located at , at an elevation of 6,470 feet . It lies along Yankee Fork Road southwest of the city of Challis, within the Challis National Forest.In 1981, the community was listed on the National...

  • De Lamar
    De Lamar, Idaho
    De Lamar is a ghost town in Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. Its elevation is 5,463 feet , and it is located at , approximately six miles west of Silver City. The community lies within an area governed by the Bureau of Land Management.The community formed around the De Lamar Mine,...

  • Florence
    Florence, Idaho
    Florence is a ghost town in Idaho County, Idaho, United States. The town was originally settled as a mining camp in the winter of 1861, Several hundred miners who had come for the Clearwater Gold Rush of 1861, heard of a huge bonanza there on the Salmon River. Many of the miners walked from...

  • Gilmore
  • Golden Age camp
  • Idaho City
    Idaho City, Idaho
    Idaho City is a city in and the county seat of Boise County, Idaho, United States, located about northeast of Boise. The population was 458 at the 2000 census.Idaho City is part of the Boise City–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

  • Leesburg
    Leesburg, Idaho
    Leesburg is an unincorporated community in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States. It lies at , along Napias Creek in the Salmon National Forest, west of Salmon. Its altitude is 6,653 feet . The community possessed a post office as late as 1942, but it has since closed...

  • Mount Idaho
    Mount Idaho, Idaho
    Mount Idaho is a ghost town in Idaho County, Idaho, United States. The town served as county seat of Idaho County from 1875 to 1902.A 45 mile stretch of trail opened in 1860 in the Mount Idaho area is believed to be one of the earliest examples of a toll road on record in the region...

  • Placerville
    Placerville, Idaho
    Placerville is a city in Boise County, Idaho, United States. The population was 60 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Boise City–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

  • Rocky Bar
    Rocky Bar, Idaho
    Rocky Bar is a ghost town in Elmore County, Idaho, United States. At its height in the late 19th century Rocky Bar boasted a population of over 2,500 and served as county seat of Alturas County from 1864 to 1882...

  • Ruby City
    Ruby City, Idaho
    Ruby City is a ghost town in Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. The town served as the original county seat of Owyhee County from 1863 to 1867. The growth of Silver City, which was founded a mile to the south in 1864, hastened Ruby City's demise. Today only remains of the cemetery mark the town's...

  • Sawtooth City
    Sawtooth City, Idaho
    Sawtooth City is an unincorporated community in Blaine County, Idaho, United States. Located at , it sits at an altitude of 7,342 feet , along Beaver Creek near its confluence with the Salmon River...

  • Silver City
    Silver City, Idaho
    Silver City is a ghost town in Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. At its height in the 1880s it was a gold and silver mining town with a population of around 2,500 and approximately 75 businesses. Silver City served as county seat of Owyhee County from 1867 to 1934. Today, the town has about 70...

  • Strevell
  • Vienna
  • Yellow Jacket

Indiana

  • Baltimore
  • Beeville
    Beeville, Indiana
    Beeville was a small town, now extinct, in Lauramie Township, near the southern border of Tippecanoe County in the U.S. state of Indiana. It was platted in 1884 along the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad and consisted of at least 10 lots...

  • Brisco
    Brisco, Indiana
    Brisco was a small town in Pine Township, Warren County, Indiana. It began in the 1850s and gained a one-room school in 1856, which operated until 1929. In 1930 the school building became a general store run for more than 50 years by local resident Jim Marquess...

  • Chatterton
    Chatterton, Indiana
    Chatterton was a small town in Adams Township, Warren County, Indiana. It was founded in 1896 and included a school, a general store and a post office that operated from 1900 to 1906. Though it has since dwindled away completely, the location of the town still persists on county maps...

  • Chesapeake
    Chesapeake, Indiana
    Chesapeake was the first town in Steuben Township, Warren County, Indiana, which was formed in 1834. It was located about two miles southeast of present-day town of Marshfield and was the site of the first meetings of the township trustees in the 1830s. County Agent Luther Tillotson lived south...

  • Collins
    Collins, Indiana
    Collins is an unincorporated town in Smith Township, Whitley County, Indiana....

  • Corwin (Henry County)
    Corwin, Henry County, Indiana
    Corwin was a small settlement in Henry County, Indiana, United States. Established in the mid 19th century, the site was little more than a station along the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway and never saw significant development...

  • Corwin (Tippecanoe County)
    Corwin, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
    Corwin was a small town, now extinct, in Tippecanoe County in the U.S. state of Indiana. It was laid out by Cyrus Foltz in 1856 and consisted of seven lots near the rail line which ran south out of Lafayette...

  • Elkinsville
    Elkinsville, Indiana
    Elkinsville is an unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana. It was once a thriving farming village, but was evacuated during the construction of nearby Lake Monroe Reservoir via eminent domain in 1964. All that remains of Elkinsville today are some private residences,...

  • Glen Hall
    Glen Hall, Indiana
    Glen Hall is a small settlement in Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The site is often considered part of the adjoining town of West Point.- Geography :...

  • Granville
    Granville, Indiana
    Granville is an extinct town in Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. It was founded in 1834 by Thomas W. Treckett and Thomas Concannon on the south side of the Wabash and Erie Canal, just south of the Wabash River. The town was platted to contain 153 lots, a public square and several...

  • Heath
    Heath, Indiana
    Heath was a small town, now extinct, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.- Geography :Heath is located at 40°27'41" North, 86°44'00" West , on a bluff overlooking Wildcat Creek to the southeast. It is in Perry Township and has an elevation of approximately 669 feet. The post office at Heath was...

  • Hindostan Falls (Martin County)
    Hindostan Falls, Indiana
    Hindostan Falls is a ghost town in Center Township, Martin County, Indiana.- Founding and early history :Hindostan was founded at the falls of the East Fork of the White River in 1816. The settlement sat along the original stagecoach route between New Albany and Vincennes and was one of the only...

  • Kickapoo
    Kickapoo, Indiana
    Kickapoo was a small town in Warren Township, Warren County, Indiana. Platted by Lewis Davisson on February 2, 1885, the town never grew substantially and is described in a 1913 history as having "a small population".-Geography:...

  • Locust Grove
    Locust Grove, Indiana
    Locust Grove was a small town in Prairie Township, Warren County, Indiana, located three miles northeast of Tab. A 1913 history describes the town's population as "less than a hundred", but all that remains at the site is the Locust Grove Church, Locust Grove Cemetery and a few...

  • Monument City (Huntington County)
  • Paxton, Indiana
    Paxton, Indiana
    Paxton is a near extinct town in Haddon Township, Sullivan County, Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.A handful of houses and a post office are all that remain of Paxton today....

  • Point Pleasant
    Point Pleasant, Indiana
    Point Pleasant was a small village in Pine Township, Warren County, Indiana, located about a mile and a half southwest of Rainsville near the confluence of Big Pine Creek and Mud Pine Creek, a site currently known as Rocky Ford. It was laid out by one John H...

  • Quaker
    Quaker, Indiana
    Quaker is an extinct town in Vermillion Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, United States. The post office at Quaker was established in 1894 and discontinued in 1914....

  • Randall
    Randall, Indiana
    Randall is an extinct town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, United States. The post office at Randall was established in 1858 and discontinued in 1872. Randall is also 1.6 miles west of another extinct town of Toronto, Indiana, on W County Road 700 S. The nearest extant community is...

  • Sheff
    Sheff, Indiana
    Sheff was the name of an interlocking tower that controlled the crossing of the New York Central railroad and the NYC subsidiary, Big Four railroad. It no longer exists. The site is in Benton County, Indiana, United States.-Geography:...

  • Sloan
    Sloan, Indiana
    Sloan is an extinct town that was located on the border of Jordan Township and Steuben Township in Warren County, Indiana, less than a mile east of the town of Hedrick.- History :...

  • Toronto
    Toronto, Indiana
    Toronto is an extinct town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, United States. The site is near the Illinois and Indiana border....

  • Tremont
    Tremont, Indiana
    Tremont Founded 1833 Changed 1876 Location U.S. 12 and Tremont Road Nearest City Porter, Indiana Coordinates Tremont, Indiana, is a ghost town formerly located in what is now the Indiana Dunes State Park and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Westchester Township in northern Porter County,...

  • Walnut Grove
    Walnut Grove, Indiana
    Walnut Grove was a small town in Prairie Township, Warren County, Indiana, located three miles east of Tab. A 1913 history describes the town's population as about 50.-Geography:...

  • Warrenton
    Warrenton, Indiana
    Warrenton is an extinct town in Warren County, Indiana, and was Warren's original county seat.- History :Warrenton was selected as the Warren County seat in March 1828 by commissioners appointed under the act forming the county...


Iowa

  • Bryantsburg
    Bryantsburg, Iowa
    Bryantsburg is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. It is located on Highway 150 north of Independence and south of Hazleton, at 42.579132N, -91.905063W.-History:...

  • Buxton
  • Buchanan
  • Conover
    Conover, Iowa
    Conover is a ghost town located in Winneshiek County, Iowa. It appears on the Fort Atkinson quadrangle of the United States Geological Survey topographic map and has been subsumed within the U.S...

  • Donnan
    Donnan, Iowa
    Donnan is a former city in the U.S. state of Iowa, located in central Fayette County. For many years, this farm hamlet was Iowa's smallest incorporated city. The town's population slowly eroded over the years; by 1990 the population had dropped to 7, and the remaining residents voted to...

  • Doris
    Doris, Iowa
    Doris and Bethel are twin town sites in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States, both located just north of Highway 939 in central Buchanan County near Independence. Founded as whistle-stops along the Chicago and North Western Railway, the sites are abandoned today.Galbraith's Rail Map of Iowa from...

  • Dudley
    Dudley, Iowa
    Dudley is the name of two ghost towns in Iowa, United States. One Dudley in Wapello County, one in Polk County.-Wapello County:Both 1908 and 1920 surveys of northwestern Wapello County have a post office located here...

  • Elkport
    Elkport, Iowa
    Elkport was a city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 88 at the 2000 census. The town was severely damaged by floods in May 2004. After the floods, all residents of the town chose federal buyout, selling their homes to the United States federal government for demolition...

  • Green Island
    Green Island, Iowa
    Green Island is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Iowa, United States....

  • Littleport
    Littleport, Iowa
    Littleport is an unincorporated community and former city in Clayton County, Iowa, USA. After the Volga River flood of May 16, 1999, much of the town was destroyed and most residents moved away. At the 2000 Census, there were 26 residents...

  • Motor
  • National
  • Shady Grove
    Shady Grove, Iowa
    Shady Grove is a former townsite and unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States, between the cities of Brandon and Jesup. Settlement of Shady Grove began in 1857, but with the advent of rural migration, the population had dropped to 25 by the 1950s...

  • Siegel
    Siegel, Iowa
    Siegel is a ghost town in Douglas Township in Bremer County, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1889, the community ceased to exist in the 1940s. Today all this left of the settlement is St. John's United Church of Christ of Siegel.-Geography:...


Kentucky

  • Blue Heron
    Blue Heron, Kentucky
    Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.Blue...

  • Creelsboro
    Creelsboro, Kentucky
    Creelsboro is a ghost town in Russell County, Kentucky, United States. The historic town was thriving some sixteen years before Russell County was formed. It was named for Elijah Creel, an early settler, and was at one time the busiest river port on the Cumberland River between Nashville,...

  • Fudge
    Fudge, Kentucky
    Fudge was a small unincorporated community in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States, approximately 4 miles southwest of modern day Hickman. A small town in the 1850s and 1860s with a population of less than 50, Fudge was abandoned after a few years after settlers determined that the land was...

  • Paradise
    Paradise, Kentucky
    Paradise was a small town in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States. The town was located 10.5 miles east-north-east of Greenville and was formerly called Stom's Landing . It was once a trading post along the Green River, but it no longer exists...

  • Scuffletown
    Scuffletown, Kentucky
    Scuffletown is a ghost town in Henderson County in the western part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River just above the mouth of Green River, it was a city for barely 100 years but is legendary in the area because of activities there during the American Civil War and its rough...


Louisiana

  • East Krotz Springs
    East Krotz Springs, Louisiana
    East Krotz Springs is a ghost town that was located in Pointe Coupee Parish's 1st Ward, approximately 12 miles west of Livonia, Louisiana . The site of the town itself is located at coordinates 30°32'52.80"N, 91°44'42.41"W, and is covered or partially covered by the current U.S. Route 190 roadway...

  • Elliot City
    Elliot City, Louisiana
    Elliot City is a ghost town that was located in Pointe Coupee Parish's 10th Ward, approximately 6 miles west of Livonia, Louisiana . The site of the town itself is located at coordinates 30.55614N, 91.66520W, and is covered or partially covered by the current U.S...

  • Sherburne
  • Waterloo
    Waterloo, Louisiana
    Waterloo is the name of a former town at the upriver juncture of the False River oxbow on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana...

  • Ruddock
    Ruddock, Louisiana
    Ruddock is an ghost town in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States. Ruddock was located on an isthmus between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain, north-northeast of LaPlace. Although the town was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915, it is still signed as an exit on Interstate 55 and...

  • Laurel Valley Village

Maine

  • Flagstaff
    Flagstaff, Maine
    Flagstaff is a ghost town and former town in Somerset County, Maine, United States, near the existing town of Eustis and about 20 miles north of Rangeley...

     (submerged to form Flagstaff Lake
    Flagstaff Lake (Maine)
    Flagstaff Lake is located in Somerset County and Franklin County, Maine in the United States. The North Branch Dead River and South Branch Dead River join in the lake, forming the Dead River....

    )
  • Perkins Township (Swan Island)

Maryland

  • Broad Creek
    Broad Creek, Maryland
    Broad Creek was a town on western Kent Island, Maryland that existed from the 17th century to the 19th century. The town once served as the eastern terminus of a trans-Chesapeake Bay ferry line that was part of an early route between Annapolis and Philadelphia.In the mid 19th century, with the...

  • Collington
    Collington, Maryland
    Collington, Maryland is a now defunct settlement in Prince George's County, Maryland dating from colonial times. Collington has been subsumed by the city of Bowie, Maryland.-Geography:...

  • Lapidum
    Lapidum, Maryland
    Lapidum is a ghost town in Maryland located at the head of navigation of the Susquehanna River on the west bank across from Port Deposit.-History:...

  • Sinepuxent
    Sinepuxent, Maryland
    Sinepuxent or Sinepuxent Town was a village in Worcester County, Maryland, located on Sinepuxent Neck across Sinepuxent Bay from the barrier island of Assateague. The village was destroyed by a hurricane in 1818 and never rebuilt...

  • Wagner's Point

Massachusetts

  • Catamount
    Catamount, Massachusetts
    Catamount is a former village of Colrain, Massachusetts. In 1812, the schoolhouse that once stood in Catamount was the first to fly the United States Flag....

  • Dana
    Dana, Massachusetts
    Dana is a former town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Formed from parts of Petersham, Greenwich, and Hardwick, it was incorporated in 1801, and was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir. Upon disincorporation, most of the town was returned...

     (submerged to form Quabbin Reservoir
    Quabbin Reservoir
    The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was built between 1930 and 1939. Today along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, some to the east, as well as 40 other communities in Greater Boston...

    )
  • Davis
    Davis, Massachusetts
    Davis, Massachusetts is the abandoned location of the Davis Pyrite Mine. Once the largest iron pyrite-mine in Massachusetts, Davis grew to be a decent sized mining village at the beginnings of the Second Industrial Revolution . But, in 1911, a non-fatal collapse of the mine due to “poor mining...

  • Dogtown
    Dogtown, Massachusetts
    Dogtown is an abandoned inland settlement on Cape Ann in Massachusetts. Once known as the Common Settlement and populated by respectable citizens, the area later known as Dogtown is divided between the city of Gloucester and the town of Rockport...

  • Enfield
    Enfield, Massachusetts
    Enfield was formerly a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, incorporated in 1816 from portions of Greenwich and Belchertown. It was named in honor of one of its early settlers, Robert Field...

     (submerged to form Quabbin Reservoir
    Quabbin Reservoir
    The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was built between 1930 and 1939. Today along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, some to the east, as well as 40 other communities in Greater Boston...

    )
  • Greenwich
    Greenwich, Massachusetts
    Greenwich was a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.It was established in 1739 as Quabbin, incorporated as Quabbin Parish in 1754 and became the town of Greenwich in 1754. It was located along the East and Middle branches of the Swift River...

     (submerged to form Quabbin Reservoir
    Quabbin Reservoir
    The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was built between 1930 and 1939. Today along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, some to the east, as well as 40 other communities in Greater Boston...

    )
  • North Bridgewater (located in between the current towns of West Bridgewater
    West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
    West Bridgewater is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,634 at the 2000 census.- History :West Bridgewater was first settled in 1651 as a part of Olde Bridgewater...

     and Brockton
    Brockton, Massachusetts
    Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 93,810 in the 2010 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County...

    )
  • Prescott
    Prescott, Massachusetts
    Prescott is a former town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1822 from portions of Pelham and New Salem. It was named in honor of Colonel William Prescott, who commanded the American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of...

     (submerged to form Quabbin Reservoir
    Quabbin Reservoir
    The Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was built between 1930 and 1939. Today along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, some to the east, as well as 40 other communities in Greater Boston...

    )
  • Whitewash Village
    Whitewash Village, Massachusetts
    Whitewash Village was a village settlement on Monomoy Island in Massachusetts. Whitewash Village was established sometime around 1710. A tavern for sailors was opened up in the location of today's Hospital Pond, known then as Wreck Cove....


Mississippi

  • Bankston
    Bankston, Mississippi
    Bankston is a ghost town in Choctaw County, Mississippi. All that remain of the town are the ruins of the general store and the cemetery. The nearest community is French Camp to the south-southwest.-External links:...

  • Brewton
    Brewton, Mississippi
    Brewton, Mississippi is a ghost town in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States.Brewton was also once known by the fanciful and unexplained name of Wontierioniasiopolis. -External links:*...

  • Camargo
    Camargo, Mississippi
    Camargo is a ghost town in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.Camargo was located at on the banks of Town Creek.Carmargo was named by veterans of the Mexican-American War for Camargo, Tamaulipas, a mustering point. -References:...

  • Cotton Gin Port
    Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi
    Cotton Gin Port is a ghost town in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.-Geography:Cotton Gin Port was located at on the east bank of the Tombigbee river.-History:...

  • Gainesville
  • Grand Gulf
  • Holmesville
    Holmesville, Mississippi
    Holmesville was named December 11, 1816 in honor of Major Andrew Hunter Holmes by commissioners who were appointed to select a spot for the seat of justice in the geographical center of the newly formed Pike County. This was the center of trade and business for the County for many years...

  • Napoleon
  • Rocky Springs
    Rocky Springs, Mississippi
    Rocky Springs, Mississippi is a ghost town and historic site located in Claiborne County, Mississippi, between Old Port Gibson Road and the Natchez Trace Parkway . The old town site can be viewed by the public during daylight hours...

  • Rodney
    Rodney, Mississippi
    Rodney was a city in Jefferson County in southwest Mississippi, approximately northeast of Natchez. Rodney was founded in 1828, and in the 19th century, it was only three votes away from becoming the capital of the Mississippi Territory. Its population declined to nearly zero after the Mississippi...

  • Westville
    Westville, Simpson County, Mississippi
    The town of Westville, in Simpson County, Mississippi, was established in the 19th century.Westville was the county seat from 1827 to 1887 when the seat was moved to Mendenhall, Mississippi. In 1905, the seat was briefly returned to Westville, but returned to Mendenhall the next year.The...

  • Woolworth
    Woolworth, Mississippi
    Woolworth is a ghost town located in rural northeast Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States.-History:Woolworth was once a major train stop between Brookhaven to the west and Silver Creek to the east. With the rise of automobiles, roads were built that by-passed Woolworth...


Missouri

  • Arlington
    Arlington, Missouri
    Arlington is a ghost town in western Phelps County, Missouri, United States, along a county road that was once U.S. Route 66. The town found its prosperity in the mid-19th century. Located near Rolla on the Ozark Plateau, all that remains of the once-booming town is a resort....

  • Bloodland
    Bloodland, Missouri
    Bloodland is ghost town in southern Pulaski County, Missouri, is surrounded by Ft. Leonard Wood. The town is near Big Piney, Missouri and close to Palace, Missouri, which is surrounded by Ft. Leonard Wood also. Bloodland is located near the Waynesville Regional Airport...

  • Columbia
    Columbia Bottom Conservation Area
    The Columbia Bottom Conservation Area is a conservation area located on the south side of the Missouri River at its confluence with the Mississippi River. The conservation area, which is located in eastern St. Louis County, Missouri, north of the city of St. Louis, is operated by the Missouri...

  • Cookville
    Cookville, Missouri
    Cookville is a ghost town in western Pulaski County, Missouri. Cookville is a former town in a forest near Ft Leonard Wood. Cookville is surrounded in a river. What's left in Cookville is two Houses....

  • Goldman
    Goldman, Missouri
    Goldman is a tiny ghost town in Jefferson County, Missouri, about 25 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri, and five miles north of the county courthouse at Hillsboro, Missouri. Goldman is located on Old Lemay Ferry Road, an old trade route connecting Hillsboro and St...

  • Hamburg
    Hamburg, Missouri
    Hamburg was a small town in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The town was evacuated in 1940-1941 as the area was taken over by the U.S...

  • Howell
  • Monark Springs
    Monark Springs, Missouri
    Monark Springs is a ghost town in Newton County, Missouri, United States. It is located twelve miles east of Neosho and is now the site of a state conservation area.-History:...

  • Possum Trot
    Possum Trot, Missouri
    Possum Trot is a former town in northeastern Stone County, Missouri, United States, about eight miles southwest of Nixa on Missouri Supplemental Route M. Only the remains of a church and a house are left....

  • Saint Annie
    Saint Annie, Missouri
    Saint Annie is a small unincorporated community in eastern Laclede County, Missouri, United States. It is about east of Nebo. The town is on Highway U....

  • Times Beach
    Times Beach, Missouri
    Times Beach, Missouri was a small town of 2,240 residents in St. Louis County, Missouri, 17 miles southwest of St. Louis and 2 mi east of Eureka, Missouri. The town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin scare that made national headlines...

  • Toonerville
  • Wayman
  • Xenia
    Xenia, Missouri
    Xenia, Missouri is a former town in Nodaway County about four miles northeast the current town of Pickering. The town moved to Pickering when it was bypassed by the railroad. It was named for Xenia, Ohio, and ceased to exist in the 1870s...



(Note: Hamburg, Howell, and Toonerville were all located in St. Charles County, Missouri. All three towns became part of the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works was a U.S. Government-owned, contractor-operated facility in St. Charles County, Missouri, 55 km west of St. Louis. The site was originally operated by the Atlas Powder Company during World War II from 1941 to 1945 to produce explosives. The Atomic Energy...

 in 1941 for WWII, which later became part of the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP))

Nebraska

  • Appleton, Pawnee County
  • Armour, Pawnee County
  • Bookwalter, Pawnee County
  • Breslau
    Breslau, Nebraska
    Breslau is a ghost town in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 20, approximately equidistant from Plainview and Osmond, at the corner of 541st Avenue....

  • Butler, Pawnee County
  • Cincinati, Pawnee County
  • De Soto
    De Soto, Nebraska
    De Soto is a former community in Washington County, Nebraska, United States. It was named in honor of the sixteenth century Spanish explorer, Hernando De Soto1. De Soto was founded in 1855 and served as the county seat from 1858-1866. During its heyday, the town hosted many flourishing new...

  • DeWitty
    DeWitty, Nebraska
    DeWitty, later renamed Audacious, was a village in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. The settlement, which was founded in 1907 and disincorporated in 1936, was located north and west of Brownlee...

  • Dobytown
    Dobytown, Nebraska
    Dobytown is a ghost town in Kearney County, Nebraska, United States, three miles west of Fort Kearny. Officially named Kearney City, the community was established in 1859. Its common name of Dobytown was derived from the resemblance of its twelve to fifteen earthen buildings to adobe structures...

  • Duff
  • Jacksonville, Pawnee County
  • Koesterville, Pawnee County
  • Linton, Pawnee County
  • Mascot, Nebraska
  • Mayberry, Pawnee County
  • Mission Creek, Pawnee County
  • New Home, Pawnee County
  • North Summerfield, Pawnee County
  • Omadi
  • Pittsburg
    Pittsburg, Nebraska
    Pittsburg is a former community in Seward County, Nebraska, United States. It was named for the industrial heritage of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the 21st century it is mostly a historical settlement with few residents....

  • Pleasant Valley, Pawnee County
  • Rock Bluff
    Rock Bluff, Nebraska
    Rock Bluff is a ghost town in Cass County located approximately three miles east of Murray in the U.S. state of Nebraska. Once the home of an influential college called the Naomi Institute, Rock Bluff was instrumental in the 1866 vote that gave Nebraska statehood.-About:Rock Bluff was a pioneer...

  • Scott's Valley, Pawnee County
  • Schafferville, Pawnee County
  • Spring Ranche
  • Tate, Pawnee County
  • Tipp's Branch, Pawnee County
  • Violet, Pawnee County

New Hampshire

  • Beebe River
    Beebe River
    The Beebe River is a river located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pemigewasset River, part of the Merrimack River watershed....

  • Carrigain
  • Livermore
    Livermore, New Hampshire
    Livermore is an unincorporated civil township in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It was briefly inhabited as a logging town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The site of the logging town is about east of Lincoln on NH Route 112...

  • Johnson and Little Canada
  • Livermore
  • Monson
  • True Francestown
  • Zealand

New Jersey

  • Batsto Village
    Batsto Village, New Jersey
    Batsto Village is a New Jersey Historic site located in Wharton State Forest in the south central Pine Barrens, and a part of the Pinelands National Reserve. It is listed on the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places, and is administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental...

     (a ghost town later transformed into an outdoor museum)
  • Feltville Historic District
  • Double Trouble
    Double Trouble State Park
    Double Trouble State Park is located in Lacey and Berkeley Townships in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The park was once the Double Trouble company's company town. The park's wilderness provides a unique insight into the Pine Barrens ecosystem...

  • Borough of Island Beach
    Island Beach, New Jersey
    Island Beach was a borough that existed in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, from 1933 to 1965.Island Beach was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 23, 1933, from portions of Berkeley Township, Lacey Township and Ocean Township. The referendum that...

  • Ong's Hat
    Ong's Hat, New Jersey
    Ong's Hat, New Jersey, is a location of what has been called a ghost town in Southampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. It is located on New Jersey Route 72 west of its intersection with New Jersey Route 70....

  • Walpack Center in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
    Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
    Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service, preserves almost of land along the Delaware River's New Jersey and Pennsylvania shores, stretching from the Delaware Water Gap northward almost to the New York state line...

  • Millbrook Village in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
    Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
    Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service, preserves almost of land along the Delaware River's New Jersey and Pennsylvania shores, stretching from the Delaware Water Gap northward almost to the New York state line...

  • Port Elizabeth
    Port Elizabeth, New Jersey
    Port Elizabeth is an unincorporated area within Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP code 08348....

     (not to be confused with Elizabethport
    Elizabethport, New Jersey
    A neighborhood in the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Formerly home of the Singer Manufacturing Company, makers of Singer Sewing Machines....

    )
  • Raritan Landing
    Raritan Landing, New Jersey
    Raritan Landing is an historical community in Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, which was once an inland port, the farthest upstream point ocean-going ships could reach along the Raritan River, across from New Brunswick...

  • South Cape May
    South Cape May, New Jersey
    South Cape May was a borough that existed in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, from 1894 to 1945. First settled in 1840, it contained a Lucy-type elephant named Light of Asia....

    +
  • Whitesbog Village
    Brendan T. Byrne State Forest
    The Brendan T. Byrne State Forest is a 34,725 acre area in the New Jersey Pine Barrens in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey.-Description:...


New York

  • Doodletown
    Doodletown, New York
    Doodletown was an isolated hamlet in the Town of Stony Point Rockland County, New York, United States. Purchased by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission during the 1960s, it is now part of Bear Mountain State Park and a popular destination for hikers, birdwatchers, botanists, and local historians...

  • Tahawus
    Tahawus, New York
    Tahawus was a village in the Town of Newcomb, Essex County, New York, USA. It is now a ghost town situated in Adirondack Park. Tahawus is located in Essex County within the unpopulated northern area designated to the town of Newcomb. Tahawus was the site of major mining and iron smelting...

  • Conklingville
    Conklingville Dam
    The Conklingville Dam, in Hadley, New York, holds back the Great Sacandaga Lake which has a 129 mile perimeter. Boating, fishing, swimming and water sports are favorite summer fun activities. Many summer rentals of homes and boats are available....

     (evacuated and used to dam the Great Sacandaga Lake
    Great Sacandaga Lake
    The Great Sacandaga Lake is a large lake situated in the Adirondack Park in northern New York in the United States. The word Sacandaga means "Land of the Waving Grass" in the local native language. The lake is located in the northern parts of Fulton County and Saratoga County near the south...

    )
  • Love Canal
    Love Canal
    Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the white collar LaSalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue...

  • Red House
    Red House, New York
    Red House is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 38, making it the least populous town in the state. The name comes from a small stream, Red House Creek....

     (see Allegany State Park
    Allegany State Park
    Allegany State Park is a state park in western New York State, located in Cattaraugus County just north of Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. The park is divided into two sections: The Red House Area and the Quaker Run Area. It lies within the Allegheny Highlands forests ecoregion.The Red...

    )
  • Elko (See Coldspring, New York
    Coldspring, New York
    Coldspring is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. It is located in the southwest part of the county, west of the City of Salamanca.- History :The first settler arrived around 1818....

    )
  • Onoville
    South Valley, New York
    South Valley is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 302 at the 2000 census. The name is from the town's geographical attributes.The Town of South Valley is in the southwest corner of the county...

     (see Kinzua Dam
    Kinzua Dam
    The Kinzua Dam, in the Allegheny National Forest in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River....

    )

North Carolina

  • Buffalo City
    Buffalo City, North Carolina
    Buffalo City, North Carolina was a logging and moonshine town in East Lake Township, Dare County, North Carolina. It was on the mainland, 19 miles west of Manteo near present-day Manns Harbor. The marshy land where Buffalo City once stood, near U.S. 64, is now part of the Alligator River National...

  • Brunswick Town
    Brunswick Town, North Carolina
    Brunswick Town is a colonial ghost town located beside the Cape Fear River in Smithville Township, Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Brunswick Town was the first settlement in the Cape Fear region, a major North Carolina port in the 18th century, and home to three colonial governors...

     (former state capital)
  • Cataloochee
    Cataloochee (Great Smoky Mountains)
    Cataloochee is a valley in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, located in the Southeastern United States. Now a recreational and historic area within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cataloochee was once home to a substantial Appalachian community and Cherokee hunting...

  • Diamond City
    Diamond City, North Carolina
    Diamond City was a settlement on the eastern end of Shackleford Banks, in Carteret County, North Carolina.Due to a hurricane that struck in August 1899, the approximately 500 residents of the settlement and island decided to move...

  • Judson
    Judson, North Carolina
    Judson can refer to:*Judson, Swain County, North Carolina*Judson, Cumberland County, North Carolina...

     (submerged under Lake Fontana)
  • Lost Cove
    Lost Cove, North Carolina
    Lost Cove is a ghost town in Yancey County North Carolina. Located on the gorge above the Nolichucky River on the Tennessee - North Carolina border, a boundary dispute and its isolation reportedly made it attractive to moonshiners in the 19th century. It was settled shortly before the Civil War and...

  • Mortimer
    Mortimer, North Carolina
    Mortimer, North Carolina is a ghost town in Wilson Creek Township, Caldwell County, in the northwestern part of the state.Once a mill town with a population of around 800, the town flooded in 1940 and was subsequently abandoned...

  • Portsmouth
    Portsmouth, North Carolina
    Portsmouth was a fishing and shipping village located on the north end of the Core Banks on the Outer Banks in North Carolina. The site lies on Portsmouth Island in Carteret County, across Ocracoke Inlet from the village of Ocracoke. The town was established in 1753, and abandoned in 1971...

  • Roanoke Colony
    Roanoke Colony
    The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony. The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by...

  • Whitney
    Stanly County, North Carolina
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 60,585 people. In 2000 there were 22,223 households, and 16,156 families residing in the county. The population density was 147 people per square mile . There were 24,582 housing units at an average density of 62 per square mile...

     (partially submerged by Badin Lake)
  • Proctor
    Proctor, North Carolina
    Proctor is a former town located in Swain County, North Carolina, U.S.A. It was on Hazel Creek. It is named after Moses Proctor, first white settler to this area. The town was flooded with the creation of Fontana Lake and remains submerged unless lake levels are very low.-References:*...

     (isolated by Lake Fontana and abandoned)
  • Glenville
    Glenville, North Carolina
    Glenville was a town located in the Hamburg township of Jackson County, North Carolina. It is now a popular lakeside vacation community with many second homes that sometimes are rented around Lake Glenville, which flooded and destroyed the town.-History:...

     (town submerged by Lake Glenville, some residents relocated to the eastern edge of the lake)
  • Ruby City
    Willets, North Carolina
    Willets is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. Willets is located along US 74, West of Balsam and East of Sylva. It is home to the Balsam-Willets-Ochre Hill fire department, a church, and many homes...

     (Mining town once located near Willets in Jackson County, now the site of the Balsam Mountain Preserve)

North Dakota

  • Alfred
    Alfred, North Dakota
    Alfred is an unincorporated hamlet in LaMoure County, North Dakota, United States. It was one of five towns founded by Richard Sykes. Its population is estimated at about 10 and it consists of a few houses, a licensed boarding home, a grocery store and a Protestant church, as well as grain storage...

  • Aurelia
  • Bently
  • Brisbane
    Brisbane, North Dakota
    Brisbane is a ghost town in what was then Morton County but today is Grant County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. ]] at Brisbane from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. locates Brisbane in section 9 of Township 133 north, Range 86 west...

  • Charbonneau
    Charbonneau, North Dakota
    Charbonneau is a ghost town in McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. It was abandoned when the post office was closed in the 1960s.-References:*...

  • Churchs Ferry
    Churchs Ferry, North Dakota
    -History:The waters level in Devils Lake began rising in the early 1990s, and more than 400 homes around the lake have been relocated or destroyed. This includes the city of Churchs Ferry, one of two municipalities that have been bought out by government agencies...

  • Dogtooth
    Dogtooth, North Dakota
    Dogtooth is a ghost town in Grant County, North Dakota, United States. It was so named because the shape of the nearby buttes resembled the molars of a dog's lower jaw. The town was located in Section 11 of survey township T133 North, Range 85 West.-History:...

    .
  • Fort Buford
  • Hartland
    Hartland, North Dakota
    Hartland is a ghost town in Ward County, North Dakota, United States, in the west of Carpio and north of Berthold."Hartland, N.D." article in Hartland Newspaper states "Hartland in 1912--Hartland was a small village established in 1907 in Sec. 30 of Carpio Township. A local resident, Martin D...

  • Heaton
  • Leipzig
  • Lonetree
  • Melville
  • Omeemee
  • Petrel
    Petrel, North Dakota
    Petrel is a ghost town in Adams County, North Dakota, United States. It is located just across the border with South Dakota, between Lemmon, South Dakota, in Perkins County and Haynes, North Dakota. Petrel is a former railroad townsite and siding on the Milwaukee Railroad...

  • Sims
    Sims, North Dakota
    Sims is a ghost town in Morton County, North Dakota, United States. The town was founded in 1883, and Sims Scandinavian Lutheran Church was constructed the next year. Today, the church has been restored and still worships every other Sunday...

  • Tagus
    Tagus, North Dakota
    Tagus is a ghost town in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. The town was founded in 1900 approximately forty miles west of Minot and along the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental route. It incorporated in 1908 reached a peak population of 140 in 1940...

  • Temple
  • Temvik
    Temvik, North Dakota
    Temvik is a ghost town in Emmons County, North Dakota, United States. It is situated between Linton and Hazelton, North Dakota. The town had a school and several grain elevators early in the twentieth century; all that remains today is a farm....

  • Van Hook
  • Verendrye
    Verendrye, North Dakota
    Verendrye is a ghost town in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. The Verendrye Electric Cooperative was established here in 1939 but relocated to Velva within a couple years. By 2007, the remnants of the town amounted to two or three house foundations and the backless facade of an old...

  • Wheelock
    Wheelock, North Dakota
    -External links:*...



External links

Ohio

  • Ai
    Ai, Ohio
    Ai is a ghost town in Fulton County, Ohio, United States, established around 1843. The origin of its name has been a local controversy: some say that it was named after the biblical city of Ai, while others believe that it was named after one of its founders, Ami Richards...

  • Atwood - Small town in southern Summit county.
  • Atwood - small town in Carroll County. Abandoned to make way for Atwood Lake
    Atwood Lake
    Atwood Lake is a reservoir located in Tuscarawas and Carroll counties in east central Ohio. The lake is formed by Atwood Dam across Indian Fork, a tributary of Conotton Creek . The lake is named for the community of Atwood which was purchased, demolished and inundated...

     in effort to control flooding
  • Blowville
  • Blue Ball
  • Claylick, Licking County, Ohio
    Licking County, Ohio
    Licking County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 166,492. Its county seat is Newark and is named for the salt licks that were in the area....

     Located at the intersection of Claylick and the Licking River, this was one of the largest towns to be destroyed and caused primarily by 2 floods 1 in 1919 and 1 in 1959. After the 2nd flood the Dillan Dam floodplain project destroyed this town.
  • Elk Lick (Destructed and flooded after construction of William H. Harsha Lake
    East Fork State Park
    East Fork State Park is a state park located in Clermont County, Ohio, United States, about 25 miles east of Cincinnati. It has camping, hiking, swimming and boating opportunities. The state park is home to many junior and collegiate rowing races, including the USRowing Youth National...

    )
  • Boston, Ohio (aka "Helltown")
    Helltown (Ohio)
    Helltown is an area in Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio, known formally as "Boston, Ohio". Local legend associates the area with Satanists and hauntings...

  • Hibernia
    Hibernia, Ohio
    Hibernia was a village located just outside modern day Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Today, there is a large apartment complex on the land that still bears the name "Hibernia." The apartments occupy the southeast corner of East Main Street and Noe-Bixby Road, just inside the I-270 corridor, on the east side...

  • Ingham
    Ingham, Ohio
    Ingham is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Of this small mining community, very little remains: mostly foundations, rubbish, and filled-in mine & tunnel entrances...

  • Knockemstiff
    Knockemstiff, Ohio
    Knockemstiff, also known as Glenn Shade or Shady Glenn, is a ghost town located in northeastern Huntington Township, Ross County, Ohio, United States, to the southwest of Chillicothe. It sits at an elevation of 692 ft....

  • Moonville
    Moonville, Ohio
    Moonville is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories.-History:In 1856, the Marietta and...

  • New Burlington
    New Burlington, Ohio
    New Burlington is a former village located in Chester Township in the northwestern corner of Clinton County, Ohio off of state route 380. It was acquired by the United States federal government when Caesar Creek was dammed and a reservoir created in the 1970s....

  • New Hampton
    New Hampton, Ohio
    New Hampton was a village in Jefferson Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States. It is now part of the village of West Jefferson.- History :...

  • Newville
  • Oreton
    Oreton, Ohio
    Oreton is a ghost town in eastern Vinton Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States, located along State Route 160. Oreton was a small mining community. Today, all that remains are the crumbled ruins of the iron furnace, a few concrete foundations, and the brick safe of Dave Ebert's company...

  • Providence
    Providence, Ohio
    Providence is a ghost town on the Maumee River in southern Providence Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States, about 24 miles southwest of Toledo.- History :...

  • Revenge
  • Rumley
  • Rural Hill (Once thriving, died after local slaughter house, the main employer, closed its doors)
  • San Toy
    San Toy, Ohio
    San Toy is a ghost town in northeastern Monroe Township, Perry County, Ohio, United States. A flourishing community in the early 20th century, it was a mining town created by the Sunday Creek Coal Company.-History:...

  • Tadmor
    Miami Conservancy District
    The Miami Conservancy District is a river management agency operating in Southwest Ohio to control flooding of the Great Miami River and its tributaries. It was organized in 1914 following the catastrophic Great Dayton Flood of the Great Miami River in March 1913, which hit Dayton, Ohio...

  • Sprucevale  (Canal town abandoned in 1870 with the closing of the canal, whose locks are still present)
  • Utopia
    Utopia, Ohio
    Utopia is an unincorporated town in far southern Franklin Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States, along the banks of the Ohio River. Utopia has been referred to as a "ghost town" although there are still people who live there.- Geography :...

  • Winchester
    Winchester, Richland County, Ohio
    Winchester is a ghost town in Worthington Township, Richland County, Ohio, United States, along the Clear Fork River. It was established south of Newville.-History:...

  • Wonderland
    Wonderland, Ohio
    Wonderland was an upper-class resort community,just outside of the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, near a bend in Big Walnut Creek. It was be slowly abandoned over a period of years after the late 1920s...


South Carolina

  • Andersonville
    Andersonville, South Carolina
    Andersonville was a town in Anderson County, South Carolina, that was settled around 1800. It was named for Robert Anderson, who was a Revolutionary War veteran. Although it had been a thriving textile and trading community, it suffered from repeated floods and was bypassed by the railroad. The...

  • Dorchester
    Dorchester, South Carolina
    Dorchester was a town in South Carolina. Situated on the Ashley River around from Charleston, it was founded in February 1696 by the followers of Reverend Joseph Lord from Dorchester, Massachusetts, who gave it the same name of the town whence they had emigrated, which was in turn named after the...

  • Dunbarton
    Dunbarton, South Carolina
    Dunbarton was a town in Barnwell County, South Carolina, United States. The area was originally settled around 1800. Dunbarton grew after a train stop was built on a new rail line. In 1951, it was acquired by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as part of a site for the Savannah River Plant...

  • Ellenton
    Ellenton, South Carolina
    Ellenton was a town that was located on the border between Barnwell County and Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. Settled around 1870, it was acquired by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1950 as part of a site for the Savannah River Plant. It was located between the current CSX...

  • Hamburg
    Hamburg, Aiken County, South Carolina
    The dead town of Hamburg, South Carolina, was once a thriving upriver market located in Edgefield District . It was founded by Henry Shultz in 1821, across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia, in direct competition with that city . In its heyday, 60,000 bales of cotton worth $2,000,000 were...

  • Hawthorne
  • Leigh
  • Meyers Mill
    Meyers Mill, South Carolina
    Meyers Mill was an unincorporated community in southwestern Barnwell County, South Carolina, United States. The area was originally settled by the Meyer family in the late 19th century. Meyers Mill grew after a train stop was built on a new rail line. In 1951, it was acquired by the U.S...

  • Mettzendorf
  • Newell
  • Robbins

South Dakota

  • Ardmore
    Ardmore, South Dakota
    Ardmore is a ghost town in Fall River County, South Dakota, United States. The town was founded in 1889. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge stopped in Ardmore. The town survived the Great Depression without one family on welfare. Rough times eventually fell on Ardmore, and by 2004 it was an...

  • Emmet
    Emmet, South Dakota
    Emmet is a ghost town in Emmet Township, Union County, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States.-Geography:Emmet is located at .Emmet has been assigned the ZIP code 57004, and the FIPS place code 19510.-History:...

  • LeBeau
    LeBeau, South Dakota
    LeBeau was a town in Walworth County, South Dakota, United States. It was on the east bank of the Missouri River, near the mouth of Swan Creek....

  • Manchester
    Manchester, South Dakota
    Manchester was a small unincorporated community in Kingsbury County in the east-central part of the U.S. state of South Dakota. On June 24, 2003, the town was completely annihilated by a large F4-rated tornado, and has since become a ghost town.-History:...

  • Minnesela
    Minnesela, South Dakota
    Minnesela was once the county seat of Butte County, South Dakota, United States. It was founded in 1881, and is located three miles from Belle Fourche with which it has a closely entwined history....


Tennessee

  • Beardstown
  • Cades Cove
    Cades Cove
    Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park...

  • Devonia
    Devonia, Tennessee
    Devonia was the United States Post Office designation for the former coal mining camp in Anderson County, Tennessee, also known as Moore's Camp. The Devonia post office, established in 1920, served Moore's Camp, plus the nearby communities of Rosedale, Fork Mountain, Braytown, and Charley's...

  • Elkmont
    Elkmont, Tennessee
    Elkmont is a region situated in the upper Little River Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Throughout its history, the valley has been home to a pioneer Appalachian community, a logging town, and a resort community...

  • Fork Mountain
    Fork Mountain, Tennessee
    Fork Mountain, Tennessee is a former coal mining camp, located on Tennessee State Route 116 and the New River, at the Morgan County-Anderson County line. Petros is 4.2 miles to the south. Frozen Head State Park is nearby with the park boundary including part of the Morgan County portion of the...

  • Hopewell
    Hopewell, Cannon County, Tennessee
    Hopewell was a former unincorporated community in Cannon County, Tennessee, United States. It lay at an elevation of 784 feet ....

  • Loyston
    Loyston, Tennessee
    Loyston was a community in Union County, Tennessee, USA, that was inundated by the waters of Norris Lake after the completion of Norris Dam in 1935. Established in the early 19th century around a foundry built by its namesake, John Loy, over subsequent decades the community's location along State...

  • Morganton
    Morganton, Tennessee
    Morganton was a community once located in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Although now submerged by Tellico Lake, during its heyday in the 19th century Morganton thrived as a flatboat port and regional business center...

  • Olympus
    Olympus, Tennessee
    Olympus was a community in Pickett County, Tennessee, that was once the site of a post office and was the birthplace of U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Olympus was first established as a post office in 1834, when the community was part of Overton County...

  • Rhea Springs
    Rhea Springs, Tennessee
    Rhea Springs was a community once located along the Piney River in Rhea County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Originally established in the 19th-century as a health resort, the community was inundated when the completion of Watts Bar Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded...

  • Wasp
    Wasp, Tennessee
    Wasp was a community located in Cocke County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Situated in the upper Wolf Creek Valley in the rugged eastern part of the county, Wasp thrived as an Appalachian agrarian community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

  • Wheat
    Wheat, Tennessee
    Wheat was a farming community in Roane County, Tennessee. The area is now in the city of Oak Ridge.The earliest settlers moved into the area in the late 18th century. However, it was not until 1846 that the area was established as the community of Bald Hill...


Vermont

  • Glastenbury
    Glastenbury, Vermont
    Glastenbury is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The town was unincorporated by an act of the state legislature in 1937, and is now essentially a ghost town. The population was eight at the 2010 census. Along with Somerset, Glastenbury is one of two Vermont towns where the...

  • Lewiston
    Lewiston, Vermont
    Lewiston is a former village in the town of Norwich, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. Settlers first arrived in that area in 1765; the village's namesake, Dr. Joseph Lewis, arrived two years later...

  • Ricker Basin
  • Smith Family Farms
  • Somerset
    Somerset, Vermont
    Somerset is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5, and is one of only a handful of places in the United States with a population of five people. Somerset is one of five unincorporated towns in Vermont. The town disincorporated...


Virginia

  • Bigler's Mill
    Bigler's Mill, Virginia
    Bigler's Mill was a small town in Virginia near Williamsburg in York County which is now extinct. It is now considered one of the many lost towns of Virginia....

  • Ca Ira
    Ca Ira, Virginia
    Ca Ira was a small community located in Cumberland County, Virginia. Formally established in 1796, it fell into disuse in the years after the American Civil War; today, few traces of the town remain, save for the old Grace Church and a handful of houses....

  • Elko Tract
    Elko Tract
    Elko Tract is a 2,220 acre tract of land in Henrico County, Virginia. It is considered one of Virginia's most well known ghost towns due to its history as a decoy airfield during World War II and suspicious activity in the area afterwards.-Civil War:...

  • Falling Creek
    Falling Creek, Virginia
    Falling Creek, Virginia, was an unincorporated location along Interstate 95 near the point where a local tributary, Falling Creek, has its confluence with the James River. It was perhaps best known as the site of one of the toll barriers on the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike, completed in 1958...

  • Jamestown
    Jamestown, Virginia
    Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia. Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 14, 1607 , it was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke...

  • Lackey
    Lackey, Virginia
    Lackey was a small unincorporated community near Yorktown in York County, Virginia, United States...

  • Lignite
    Lignite, Virginia
    Lignite is a ghost town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. A former lignite coal mining town, it consisted of a company store, churches, and a main street theater. It was abandoned in 1890 after ore demands dropped...

  • Potomac
    Potomac, Virginia
    Potomac, Virginia, is an extinct incorporated town formerly located in Alexandria County. A planned community, its proximity to Washington D.C. made it a popular place for employees of the U.S. government to live...

  • Warwick
    Warwick, Virginia (Chesterfield County)
    Warwick was an unincorporated town and port in Chesterfield County, Virginia, located on the navigable portion of the James River about 5 miles south of downtown Richmond, Virginia...

  • Westham
    Westham, Virginia
    Westham was an unincorporated town in Henrico County, Virginia. It is located in the present day area of Tuckahoe, Virginia.-History:Westham was established on land that had been owned by William Randolph II. When Randolph died, his son Beverley, inherited Westham Plantation and planned to create...

  • Rockfish
    Rockfish, Virginia
    Rockfish is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.-Overview:It was among the communities severely affected by flash flooding from Hurricane Camille in 1969....



See Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia
Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia
Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed within the English Colony of Virginia or, after statehood, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and no longer retain the same form within its boundaries. The settlements, towns, and administrative units discussed here ceased to exist in a...

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West Virginia

  • Blue Sulphur Springs
    Blue Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
    Blue Sulphur Springs is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Blue Sulphur Springs is north of Alderson. It is named for a former mineral springs resort that was nearby....

  • Brink
    Brink, West Virginia
    Brink is an unincorporated community in Marion and Wetzel counties, West Virginia, United States. Brink is west of Mannington....

  • Devon
  • Eagle
  • Fire Creek
  • Freed
  • Glade
  • Goodwill
    Goodwill, West Virginia
    Goodwill is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Goodwill is west of Montcalm....

  • Jerryville
  • Layland
    Layland, West Virginia
    Layland is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Layland is located on West Virginia Route 41 west-northwest of Meadow Bridge. Layland has a post office with ZIP code 25864....

  • Lobelia
    Lobelia, West Virginia
    Lobelia is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. Lobelia is west of Hillsboro....

  • Pearlytown
  • Putney
  • Royal
  • Rutherford
  • Sewell
    Sewell, West Virginia
    Sewell is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Sewell is located on the New River southeast of Fayetteville....

  • Stotesbury
    Stotesbury, West Virginia
    Stotesbury is a former coal mining town in Raleigh County in the U.S. state of West Virginia that flourished during the 1930s. The community was named for Edward T. Stotesbury, then the president of Beaver Coal Company....

  • Thurmond
    Thurmond, West Virginia
    Thurmond was incorporated in 1900 and was most likely named for Captain W. D. Thurmond, who settled here in 1844. He served in the Confederate Army and died in 1910 at age 90. Thurmond post office was established in 1888 and discontinued in 1995...

  • Virginius Island
    Virginius Island
    Virginius Island is an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The island is formed by the Shenandoah Canal, constructed by the Patowmack Company between 1806 and 1807, which separates it from the town of Harpers Ferry...

  • Whitney

Wisconsin

  • Aurora
    Aurora, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
    Aurora is now part of the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, but was the site of one of the area's earliest post offices, opened in the early 1830s at the Willis Tavern, the Aurora community center on the west side of the old Green Bay Trail just north of what is now 60th...

  • Delhi
    Delhi, Wisconsin
    Delhi, Wisconsin is a ghost town in the town of Rushford, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on County Highway E between Omro and Eureka at the junction of the Fox River and Waukau Creek. Delhi was also known as La Borde's Landing. 1980 census records identify Delhi as...

  • Muskego Settlement
    Muskego Settlement
    The Muskego Settlement was one of the first Norwegian American settlements in the United States. Situated near today's Muskego, Wisconsin, the Muskego Settlement covered areas within what is now the town of Norway, Wisconsin.-History:...

  • Nya Upsala
    Nya Upsala
    New Upsala also referred to as the Pine Lake Settlement, was an early pioneer Swedish-American community in Wisconsin. New Upsala was a short-lived settlement of Swedish immigrants founded by Gustaf Unonius...

  • Ranney
  • Ulao
    Ulao, Wisconsin
    Ulao, Wisconsin, is an unincorporated community in the Town of Grafton in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It is located at the intersection of Ulao Road and the old Chicago and Northwestern railroad running from Milwaukee to Green Bay. Today, I-43 runs a few hundred feet to the west of the town...


Wyoming

  • Atlantic City
    Atlantic City, Wyoming
    Atlantic City is a census-designated place in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 39 at the 2000 census. The community is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass in southwestern Wyoming. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region...

  • Benton
  • Bessemer
  • Bryan
    Bryan, Wyoming
    Bryan is a ghost town in Sweetwater County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Bryan is located about west of Green River along the Blacks Fork River, and for a short time was the local headquarters and division point of the Union Pacific Railroad...

  • Carbon Timber Town
  • The Duncan
  • Fort Steele
  • Hecla
  • Jeffrey City
    Jeffrey City, Wyoming
    Jeffrey City is a census-designated place and former uranium mining boomtown located in Fremont County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming. The town is famous in Wyoming and the American West as symbol of a boomtown that went “bust” very quickly, as the mine was shut down in 1982...

  • Jireh
  • Kane
    Kane, Wyoming
    Kane is a town that existed two miles south of the confluence of the Shoshone River and the Bighorn River in Big Horn County, Wyoming. Prior to the completion of the Yellowtail Dam in Montana, the residents of Kane sold their homes and land to the federal government. When the dam was completed the...

  • Lewiston
  • Lost Springs
    Lost Springs, Wyoming
    -Education:Public education in the town of Lost Springs is provided by Converse County School District #1....

  • Miner's Delight
    Miner's Delight, Wyoming
    Hamilton City, or Miner's Delight as it was commonly known, was a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, during the mining boom in the 19th century. Today a few buildings stand as a reminder of an era gone past in Wyoming history.-Demographics:...

  • Pacific Springs
  • Piedmont
    Piedmont, Wyoming
    Piedmont is a ghost town located in Uinta County, Wyoming. It was once a thriving small railroad and timber town, but started to decline when Union Pacific opened a new line that bypassed the town.- Geography :...

  • South Pass City
    South Pass City, Wyoming
    South Pass City is an unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. It is located 2 miles south of the intersection of highways 28 and 131. The closest town is Atlantic City...

  • Sherman
  • Superior
    Superior, Wyoming
    Superior is a town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 244 at the 2000 census.-Notable people:*Former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Richard V...

  • Table Rock
    Table Rock, Wyoming
    Table Rock is a ghost town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. It was a census-designated place at the 2000 census, with a population of 82, but by the 2010 census the population had dropped to 0.-Geography:...

  • Tubb Town
  • Van Tassell
    Van Tassell, Wyoming
    Van Tassell is a town in Niobrara County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 18 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Van Tassell is located at ....

  • Walcott
    Walcott, Wyoming
    Walcott is an unincorporated community in central Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. It lies along local roads near Interstate 80 and the concurrent U.S. Routes 30 and 287, east of the city of Rawlins, the county seat of Carbon County. Its elevation is 6,627 feet...


See also

  • Ghost town
    Ghost town
    A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...

  • List of ghost towns
  • Dogpatch USA
    Dogpatch USA
    Dogpatch USA is an abandoned theme park located on State Highway 7 between the cities of Harrison and Jasper in Arkansas, USA, an area known today as Marble Falls...

  • Ghost Town in the Sky
    Ghost Town in the Sky
    Ghost Town in the Sky was a Wild West-themed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, USA. An unusual aspect of this park is that it is located atop a mountain which can only be accessed by visitors via a chair lift or an inclined funicular railway...

  • Ghost Town, Oakland, California
    Ghost Town, Oakland, California
    Ghost Town is the informal name of the Foster Hoover Historic District neighborhood in West Oakland, Oakland, California. The community is known for its violence and blight. The name probably originated from the two casket companies operating side by side on Filbert Street between 30th and 32nd...

  • List of places with fewer than ten residents

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