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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Michigan — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.