State atlas · filed under MI
Ghost Towns of Michigan
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is copper- and iron-ghost country — Keweenaw mine locations abandoned in ranks after 1913 — while the northern Lower Peninsula holds the stump-plain towns the white pine cutover left stranded.
1,704 sites surveyed across Michigan — 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 1,704 vanished or historical sites in Michigan — 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 Michigan as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
190 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Michigan. 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 Michigan — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.