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.

✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending

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.

Society Pro

See Hawaii as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919

14 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Hawaii. 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.

275mine features

61mineral sites

209lost places

14survey sheets

The full survey ledger

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

Ah Fong VillageMaui Co.Airport VillageMaui Co.Alabama VillageMaui Co.Cod Fish VillageMaui Co.FerndaleHawaii Co.GalbraithHonolulu Co.HāmākuapokoMaui Co.Hawaiian VillageMaui Co.Hawaiian-Spanish VillageMaui Co.HonohinaHawaii Co.HonoluaMaui Co.Honolulu LandingHawaii Co.HonomāʻeleMaui Co.Hopoi VillageMaui Co.Hyashi VillageMaui Co.ʻĀpuaHawaii Co.ʻŌhaikeaHawaii Co.ʻŌhaikea HousesHawaii Co.ʻUlaʻinoMaui Co.Japanese Village OneMaui Co.Kāheka VillageMaui Co.KaʻiliʻiliMaui Co.KaʻonoʻuluMaui Co.Kailua VillageMaui Co.KalapanaHawaii Co.KamalinoKauai Co.Kapaʻakea ColonyMaui Co.KapakaKauai Co.KapuʻaHawaii Co.KarstonHonolulu Co.KaunalewaKauai Co.KawailiʻulāHawaii Co.KeāhuaMaui Co.KealakomoHawaii Co.KeanapaʻakaiHawaii Co.KeawakapuMaui Co.KeʻāmukuHawaii Co.KeomukuMaui Co.KīpukanahuaopalaHawaii Co.KoaʻeHawaii Co.KōʻeleMaui Co.LaeʻapukiHawaii Co.LahuipuaaHawaii Co.LehuaHawaii Co.Lower Village ThreeMaui Co.MahanaMaui Co.Mahinahina CampMaui Co.MakaʻeoHawaii Co.Manila CampMaui Co.ManukāHawaii Co.McGerrow VillageMaui Co.Middle Village ThreeMaui Co.MikiluaHonolulu Co.Mikilua CampHonolulu Co.MoaʻulaHawaii Co.Mokumoa IslandHonolulu Co.NapumaiaHawaii Co.Narushi CampMaui Co.Nashiwa VillageMaui Co.NawaaMaui Co.NeneleʻaHonolulu Co.NiuʻōʻūHawaii Co.Nonopahu VillageKauai Co.NuʻuMaui Co.OhiaHawaii Co.OkoeHawaii Co.OlelomoanaHawaii Co.OloewaMaui Co.OnauMaui Co.OnomeaHawaii Co.OnouliHawaii Co.Otani CampMaui Co.PaholoiMaui Co.PalihoʻoukapapaHawaii Co.PāpāHawaii Co.PāpaʻiHawaii Co.PawainaHawaii Co.PeahiMaui Co.PuluHawaii Co.PuupehuKauai Co.Ranch CampMaui Co.Royal GardensHawaii Co.Russian VillageMaui Co.Sam Sing VillageMaui Co.School VillageMaui Co.Spanish B VillageMaui Co.Store VillageMaui Co.Village EightMaui Co.Village FiveMaui Co.Village FourMaui Co.Village SixMaui Co.Village TenMaui Co.Village ThirteenMaui Co.Village TwoMaui Co.WaiakahiulaHawaii Co.WailauMaui Co.WatertownHonolulu Co.Yung Hee VillageMaui Co.

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