State atlas · filed under ME
Ghost Towns of Maine
Maine's ghosts are working waterfronts and woods: granite-quarry islands, lime and ice towns, and lumber camps that emptied when their single industry sailed, plus hill farms surrendered to the returning forest.
428 sites surveyed across Maine — 2 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 428 vanished or historical sites in Maine — 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 Maine as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
425 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Maine. 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 Maine — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.