Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Detroit
The survey records 629 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Detroit, MI. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Pithole City, PA~186 mi
Vanished Place
Fifteen thousand people in six months — then an empty field of mowed streets.
San Toy, OH~192 mi
Vanished Place
A rough Ohio coal town that voted itself out of existence in 1931.
Moonville, OH~212 mi
Vanished Place
Ohio's most haunted-storied tunnel is all that's left of a coal hamlet.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Exeter, MI~30 mi
New Jerusalem, OH~50 mi
Maple Grove, OH~52 mi
Rockwell, OH~55 mi
Prentice, OH~55 mi
Middleton, OH~55 mi
Sheldon, OH~56 mi
Richards, OH~56 mi
Bowen, OH~57 mi
Violet, OH~58 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Detroit area to see them in place.