Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Dallas
The survey records 88 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Dallas, TX. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Thurber, TX~96 mi
Historic Townsite
Texas's great coal-and-brick company town — 8,000 people owned lock, stock, and payroll.
Belle Plain, TX~153 mi
Vanished Place
A county seat with a college and twenty grand pianos — gone in thirty years.
Medicine Mound, TX~188 mi
Near-Abandoned
A farm town named for four sacred hills the Comanche held holy.
Ingalls, OK~230 mi
Vanished Place
The town that sheltered the Doolin gang — and paid for it in one famous gunfight.
Texola, OK~249 mi
Near-Abandoned
'There is no place like Texola' — a Route 66 town on the Texas line, nearly emptied.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Embree, TX~14 mi
Biggers, TX~32 mi
New Hope, TX~34 mi
Parris, TX~35 mi
Buchanan, TX~46 mi
Mormon Grove, TX~55 mi
Kimball, TX~61 mi
Round House, TX~64 mi
Flat Prairie, TX~67 mi
Deep Well Crossing, TX~74 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Dallas area to see them in place.