State atlas · filed under MD
Ghost Towns of Maryland
Maryland's lost towns line the Chesapeake and the coal hollows of the far west — tobacco ports silted into marsh, oyster communities that followed the beds' collapse, and Georges Creek mining patches.
620 sites surveyed across Maryland — 1 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 620 vanished or historical sites in Maryland — 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 Maryland — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.