State atlas · filed under KS
Ghost Towns of Kansas
Kansas ghosts are prairie arithmetic — county-seat wars lost, railroads that chose the other townsite, and Dust Bowl attrition — plus the mining corner at Galena and Treece that lead and zinc first built and then poisoned.
1,053 sites surveyed across Kansas — 3 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 1,053 vanished or historical sites in Kansas — 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 Kansas — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.