State atlas · filed under HI
Ghost Towns of Hawaii
Hawai‘i's vanished settlements are plantation camps that closed with sugar and pineapple, ranching villages, and coastal communities destroyed by lava and tsunami — layered over older sites abandoned in the century after contact.
294 sites surveyed across Hawaii. Full records are being verified and charted — the survey marks below are where they'll appear.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 294 vanished or historical sites in Hawaii — 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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Hawaii — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.