Ghost Town Trails

State atlas · filed under FL

Ghost Towns of Florida

Florida's ghosts came in waves: Panhandle timber and turpentine camps, citrus towns frozen out by the great freezes of the 1890s, and boom-era plats of the 1920s that the bust and hurricanes returned to palmetto.

841 sites surveyed across Florida — 2 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 841 vanished or historical sites in Florida — 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.

TownClassification
EllavilleSuwannee Co.Vanished PlaceFort DadeHillsborough Co.Vanished Place

Society Pro

See Florida as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919

126 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Florida. 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.

2,517mine features
1,622mineral sites
430lost places
126survey sheets

The full survey ledger

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

AchackwaithleFranklin Co.AcklocknaykePinellas Co.AhosulgaMadison Co.Alachua IIAlachua Co.Alackaway TolofaAlachua Co.AlapahaHamilton Co.AtawaliaTaylor Co.AttapulgasGadsden Co.AucillaMadison Co.Beech CreekLevy Co.BelgiumDeSoto Co.Belle Vista BeachPinellas Co.Big HammockCitrus Co.Black CreekClay Co.Bucker Womans TownSumter Co.ButlerJackson Co.Cacema TownPolk Co.CaloosahatcheeLee Co.Canal AdditionOrange Co.CanaveralBrevard Co.Chipco TownshipPasco Co.ChoconicklaCalhoun Co.ChukuchattaPasco Co.CohowfoocheeLeon Co.Coosada Old TownWashington Co.CraigMonroe Co.CuscowillaMarion Co.Don Ce-Sar PlacePinellas Co.DurhamCalhoun Co.East MayportDuval Co.EkanachatteJackson Co.EscambiaLiberty Co.EstanifanulgaLiberty Co.EtotulgaMadison Co.EufalaCalhoun Co.HalpataColumbia Co.HamasteJefferson Co.HatchcakamochaJefferson Co.Heijahs TownMarion Co.HiamoneeGadsden Co.HitchapukassePolk Co.HyhappoJackson Co.IlcombeTaylor Co.IoleeCalhoun Co.JuliaSt. Johns Co.Lake Conway ParkOrange Co.Lake WeirMarion Co.LeonardsCalhoun Co.LeroyMarion Co.LochiochaGadsden Co.Marshall PlantationDuval Co.MayacasBrevard Co.MayaimiGlades Co.McNealCalhoun Co.McQueens VillageHillsborough Co.MikasukiJefferson Co.MinorvilleOrange Co.Nela Isle AnnexOrange Co.New MikasukiMadison Co.New SmyrnaVolusia Co.Nombre de DiosSt. Johns Co.NugallaTaylor Co.OakhurstPinellas Co.OcheeseulgaCalhoun Co.OchisiJackson Co.OcklockoneeLeon Co.OhathlockhouchyGadsden Co.OkahumpkaLake Co.OkawahathakoPutnam Co.Okeafenoke SwampBaker Co.OktahatkoJackson Co.Oponys TownPolk Co.OsochiJackson Co.Paynes TownMarion Co.PilaklakhaSumter Co.PocotalacoSt. Johns Co.Rainbow FallsMarion Co.RollestownPutnam Co.San BuenaventuraSt. Johns Co.San Carlos ChacatosBay Co.San Diego SalamototoSt. Johns Co.San Francisco de OconiTaylor Co.San Francisco PotanoAlachua Co.San Juan de GuacaraTaylor Co.San Juan OspalagaMadison Co.San Lorenzo IbitachucoMadison Co.San Luis ApalacheJefferson Co.San MarcosWakulla Co.San Nicolas PalicaDuval Co.San Nicolas TolentinoSt. Johns Co.San Pablo PataliDuval Co.San Pedro PoturibaSuwannee Co.SoliteClay Co.Suwanee Old TownDixie Co.Tala ApopkaOrange Co.Tallahasse - YuchiVolusia Co.TamaLiberty Co.TamathliJackson Co.TocktoethlaJackson Co.TohopikaligaOsceola Co.TolomatoDuval Co.TopkegaigaGadsden Co.TopocapaJefferson Co.ToponanaulkaMadison Co.TotstalahoeetskaPinellas Co.WachitokhaSuwannee Co.WacissaJefferson Co.WakasassaLevy Co.WasupaWakulla Co.WelikaWakulla Co.WethocouchyWakulla Co.WillanochaJefferson Co.WoftokaColumbia Co.YalakaOrange Co.YamasseeJackson Co.
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