The National Atlas
52,740 surveyed sites · use the locate button to find ghost towns near you
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Every vanished place in America, on one map
The atlas charts 52,740 ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops drawn from the federal place-name archive — every settlement the record says once existed and no longer does. Red marks are charted towns with full histories; the rest are surveyed sites awaiting verification. Zoom into any region, click a mark for the record, or use the locate button to find ghost towns near you.
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Alabama2,938Alaska729Arizona554Arkansas1,289California4,017Colorado584Connecticut314Delaware47District of Columbia193Florida841Georgia1,796Hawaii294Idaho646Illinois581Indiana113Iowa1,282Kansas1,053Kentucky2,788Louisiana1,220Maine428Maryland620Massachusetts613Michigan1,704Minnesota737Mississippi2,183Missouri1,218Montana2,347Nebraska484Nevada1,920New Hampshire213New Jersey369New Mexico1,119New York1,104North Carolina1,212North Dakota161Ohio1,318Oklahoma148Oregon3,015Pennsylvania1,364Rhode Island151South Carolina1,097South Dakota833Tennessee2,272Texas745Utah384Vermont177Virginia1,263Washington807West Virginia601Wisconsin424Wyoming430