State atlas · filed under MO
Ghost Towns of Missouri
Missouri lost lead-belt company towns, Ozark timber camps, and river ports; its most famous modern ghost, Times Beach, was evacuated over dioxin — a twentieth-century ending to a nineteenth-century pattern.
1,218 sites surveyed across Missouri — 3 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 1,218 vanished or historical sites in Missouri — 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.
TownYearsLast pop.Classification
Valles MinesJefferson Co.Vanished PlaceArlingtonPhelps Co.Vanished PlaceTimes BeachSt. Louis Co.Vanished Place
Society Pro
See Missouri as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
356 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Missouri. 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.
6,307mine features
12,907mineral sites
7,606lost places
356survey sheets
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Missouri — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.
AbattisWarren Co.AdamsWorth Co.AdelbertWashington Co.AlamodeReynolds Co.Albany JunctionGentry Co.AlvordMercer Co.AmeeraTaney Co.AntlerWright Co.AshlandSt. Louis Co.AshtonBuchanan Co.AtchleyLaclede Co.AustriaPhelps Co.AveryCrawford Co.BakerSt. Clair Co.BakersvilleCallaway Co.Bark CampDunklin Co.BarlowWayne Co.BarrenCarter Co.BayfieldDeKalb Co.Bear Den JunctionStone Co.BeckettSt. Charles Co.BelcherButler Co.BellevilleCole Co.Berry FordDallas Co.BiggsDouglas Co.BinghamCarroll Co.BlackbirdPutnam Co.BlackwaterJohnson Co.BlendvilleJasper Co.BlosserSaline Co.BooneFranklin Co.BoonesboroughBoone Co.BooserButler Co.BoscobelDent Co.BowdryCarroll Co.BoxfordDeKalb Co.Braddy FordMadison Co.BradyvilleStoddard Co.BrinkerhoffPemiscot Co.BroadwayMaries Co.BrownSullivan Co.Brushy MillShannon Co.BryansCallaway Co.Buckhart SpringsShannon Co.BuckleyGreene Co.Bunker CampReynolds Co.Bunker HillLewis Co.BunnvilleVernon Co.BurlingtonCole Co.Burr OakLincoln Co.ByberryCooper Co.CalveyFranklin Co.Cape GalenaMorgan Co.CarsonHowell Co.CartmellNewton Co.Castle RockOsage Co.CastorvilleStoddard Co.Cause PrairieCass Co.Cedar ValleyTaney Co.ChantillyLincoln Co.ChaoniaWayne Co.CharretteWarren Co.Cherry DellMarion Co.ChesterNewton Co.ChickClay Co.ChiltonWayne Co.ChranevilleChariton Co.ClaudStoddard Co.CliffordPolk Co.CodyNew Madrid Co.ComptonWebster Co.ConcordCape Girardeau Co.CongoShannon Co.ConsvilleHenry Co.CooleysClay Co.CorbinSt. Clair Co.CorioliCooper Co.Cote Sans DesseinCallaway Co.CrabbsWebster Co.CrittendenCamden Co.CrumpeckerNew Madrid Co.CubaLafayette Co.Daggetts FordOsage Co.DairyvilleReynolds Co.Dallion FordDallas Co.DartmoundSt. Charles Co.De CampPhelps Co.DelavanJackson Co.DeweyPolk Co.DingleyOsage Co.DorcasStone Co.Drewel FordGasconade Co.DrydenRipley Co.DubuqueJasper Co.EastviewTaney Co.EaudevieChristian Co.EbbSt. Clair Co.EdsallCedar Co.EffieCallaway Co.El PasoBarry Co.EllerslieCallaway Co.ElmwoodCape Girardeau Co.EmmettDade Co.EngleJefferson Co.EnoughIron Co.EnterpriseMcDonald Co.EurekaBoone Co.EverettBoone Co.EzraBollinger Co.FairfieldBenton Co.FairviewCedar Co.Falk MillDent Co.FerrysWayne Co.FeuersvilleOsage Co.FisherCarroll Co.FlagTaney Co.Flat CreekBarry Co.FloryDade Co.Forest ParkLawrence Co.FortyvilleLafayette Co.Fourche a RenaultWashington Co.Fourteen BendPemiscot Co.French VillageOsage Co.Gaines FordMaries Co.GaitherLawrence Co.GarrettCallaway Co.Gaunt FordDallas Co.GeorgeFranklin Co.GermantownBoone Co.Gilbertson FordLaclede Co.GlaizeCamden Co.GrabeelOzark Co.Grand River CityChariton Co.GrangevilleNewton Co.Gravel PointTexas Co.Grays PointScott Co.Green GablesCamden Co.Greene SpringsVernon Co.GreshamPolk Co.GridleyDeKalb Co.Hackler FordDallas Co.HallPemiscot Co.HallettMississippi Co.HarmonyLivingston Co.HawleyWright Co.HazelvilleKnox Co.Head FordWayne Co.HeilburnCallaway Co.HelveyReynolds Co.Henderson FordMaries Co.HiattWebster Co.Hickory CreekAudrain Co.HicoDallas Co.HighviewLincoln Co.HiloDouglas Co.HimontShannon Co.HomesteadCarter Co.HondinNew Madrid Co.HordCallaway Co.House HollowShannon Co.Howards BluffCallaway Co.HowellSt. Charles Co.HubenLaclede Co.HybridLinn Co.HydesburgRalls Co.IliaMercer Co.IngallsPolk Co.Iona CityWorth Co.IsbellOsage Co.JobeOregon Co.Johns MillsDouglas Co.Johnson FordMaries Co.JuanitaNew Madrid Co.Junction LookoutDent Co.KentonScott Co.KeokukPemiscot Co.KerriganWayne Co.KeystoneClinton Co.Kic-ka-poo VillageSt. Charles Co.KimmeltonCape Girardeau Co.KingbeeRipley Co.Kings GroveHolt Co.KochSt. Louis Co.KrepinNew Madrid Co.KruegervilleWarren Co.La CharbonniereSt. Louis Co.Lake FordOsage Co.LakesideJefferson Co.LandmarkHoward Co.LatohCarroll Co.LawingChristian Co.LebanonBoone Co.LeducGasconade Co.LeopolisLivingston Co.LexingtonBoone Co.Liberty LandingClay Co.Limekiln FordDallas Co.LindersvilleAdair Co.Linns MillsLincoln Co.LisletownOsage Co.Little Osage VillageSaline Co.LongvilleMacon Co.LydaMacon Co.MadelaineDaviess Co.Marion CityMarion Co.MartinsburgRipley Co.MashekLincoln Co.McFarlandTaney Co.McPheters FordDallas Co.Meramec SpringsPhelps Co.MillerStoddard Co.Miller BrothersBarton Co.Miller FordDallas Co.Missouri VillageChariton Co.MorseyWarren Co.Mossy ResortPulaski Co.MottHowell Co.Munger ResortPulaski Co.NamrashChariton Co.Narrows CreekMacon Co.NashvilleBoone Co.NefyAdair Co.Never SpurMississippi Co.New SalemLincoln Co.New YorkScott Co.NewsteadNewton Co.NidaAndrew Co.NordlowNew Madrid Co.NorfolkMississippi Co.OakdaleReynolds Co.OaklandLafayette Co.OasisTaney Co.Old GreenvilleWayne Co.Old Shawnee VillageStoddard Co.OmbaDouglas Co.OrleansPolk Co.OrtizAudrain Co.OvidRay Co.OvietCass Co.OwenLincoln Co.PalaceGreene Co.PashawVernon Co.Paydown FordMaries Co.PercheBoone Co.PersiaBoone Co.PeruBates Co.PetersburgCooper Co.PetersburgBoone Co.Phillips FordHickory Co.PinkleyReynolds Co.PipertownSaline Co.PlatanusButler Co.PointSt. Louis Co.PointsBoone Co.Poor FarmScott Co.PrairieviewWarren Co.PronaxSchuyler Co.QuinnLawrence Co.RaftvilleTexas Co.Ralphwhite FordDallas Co.RembertWright Co.ReynardBates Co.RigaRipley Co.RippeeDouglas Co.RiversideReynolds Co.RiversidePulaski Co.RockfordCass Co.Rocky FordVernon Co.Rodger FordCamden Co.RossOregon Co.Round Bottom FordHickory Co.RoxieButler Co.Rumsey SpurMississippi Co.Rural HomeCass Co.Saint AnniePulaski Co.SankeyCrawford Co.SedanDouglas Co.Senate GroveFranklin Co.Seneca Quapaw AgencyNewton Co.ShepardIron Co.SherwoodBarton Co.ShoverStoddard Co.SignalPhelps Co.SimsButler Co.SinkinShannon Co.Smith FordLaclede Co.SmithtonBoone Co.SnowMacon Co.SnowdonLinn Co.South BlanchardAtchison Co.South PointFranklin Co.Spur 3Shannon Co.StapletownBoone Co.StarkdalePike Co.StockbridgeBuchanan Co.StonesportBoone Co.StorySt. Clair Co.StrodervilleCape Girardeau Co.SummervilleBoone Co.Sweet Hollow FordLaclede Co.Taskee StationWayne Co.TealCole Co.TedrickDouglas Co.TempleVernon Co.TheodosiaOzark Co.Thralls PrairieBoone Co.Times BeachSt. Louis Co.Tin RoofShannon Co.ToddMorgan Co.Tom Hollow FordLaclede Co.TrinityAdair Co.TurnbackDade Co.Turner FordDallas Co.Valley ForgeSt. Francois Co.ViemanGasconade Co.VoyageGentry Co.WalbertFranklin Co.WanamakerSaline Co.WebbReynolds Co.West LibertyPutnam Co.WestbrookPemiscot Co.WestcottPhelps Co.WetherhillHowell Co.WhiteWashington Co.WilaNew Madrid Co.WilburPemiscot Co.WilhiteBoone Co.Witte FordGasconade Co.WolfeVernon Co.WyomingCass Co.YeakleyGreene Co.ZetaStoddard Co.