State atlas · filed under MN
Ghost Towns of Minnesota
Minnesota's ghosts follow the Iron Range's shifting pits — towns physically moved or closed as mines expanded — plus cutover timber camps and prairie hamlets the railroads consolidated away.
737 sites surveyed across Minnesota — 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 737 vanished or historical sites in Minnesota — 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 Minnesota — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.