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