Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Austin
The survey records 108 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Austin, TX. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Indianola, TX~143 mi
Vanished Place
The port that rivaled Galveston — erased so thoroughly Texans made it a proverb.
Thurber, TX~160 mi
Historic Townsite
Texas's great coal-and-brick company town — 8,000 people owned lock, stock, and payroll.
Belle Plain, TX~170 mi
Vanished Place
A county seat with a college and twenty grand pianos — gone in thirty years.
Sherwood, TX~194 mi
Near-Abandoned
A lost county seat whose 1901 stone courthouse still stands empty in the grass.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Old Round Rock, TX~17 mi
Shiloh, TX~25 mi
Pleasant Grove, TX~27 mi
Mineral Springs, TX~34 mi
Buffalo Springs, TX~41 mi
Westbrook, TX~47 mi
Pleasant Grove, TX~49 mi
Bulverde East, TX~53 mi
Childers Mill, TX~54 mi
Bulverde South, TX~55 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Austin area to see them in place.