State atlas · filed under AZ
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.
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.
Society Pro
See Arizona as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
303 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Arizona. Pro lays them over today's map with a swipe between then and now, and adds every mine feature, lost place and mineral site the federal record holds for the state.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Arizona — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.