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Ghost Towns of Arizona

Arizona's ghosts are mining camps at heart — silver at Tombstone's edges, copper on every mountain of ore — plus a Route 66 generation of roadside towns the interstate starved in a single decade.

554 sites surveyed across Arizona — 17 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.

✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending

Survey note

The federal place-name archive records 554 vanished or historical sites in Arizona — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.

TownYearsLast pop.Classification

Vulture CityMaricopa Co.1863–19420Historic Townsite ChlorideMohave Co.1863–1944250Near-Abandoned StantonYavapai Co.1863–19050Historic Townsite JeromeYavapai Co.1876–1953450Near-Abandoned RubySanta Cruz Co.1877–19410Verified Ghost Town Canyon DiabloCoconino Co.1880–19030Vanished Place FairbankCochise Co.1881–19700Historic Townsite GoldfieldPinal Co.1892–19260Historic Townsite PearceCochise Co.1894–194015Near-Abandoned GleesonCochise Co.1900–19580Verified Ghost Town CleatorYavapai Co.1902–19545Near-Abandoned CochranPinal Co.1905–19150Vanished Place OatmanMohave Co.1906–1942100Near-Abandoned SascoPinal Co.1907–19210Verified Ghost Town CourtlandCochise Co.1909–19420Vanished Place SwanseaLa Paz Co.1909–19370Verified Ghost Town Two GunsCoconino Co.1922–19710Vanished Place

The full survey ledger

Every vanished town the federal archive records in Arizona — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.

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