Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Fresno
The survey records 677 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Fresno, CA. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Historic Townsite
California's first Black-founded town — betrayed by water, preserved by will.
Near-Abandoned
Once home to thousands of Chinese miners — and California's great tong war.
Near-Abandoned
A port town whose lake was piped to Los Angeles — beach sign still standing.
Verified Ghost Town
A gold-rush boomtown of 8,000, kept in arrested decay since 1962.
Verified Ghost Town
The silver mountain that built Los Angeles — now one man's restoration obsession.
Vanished Place
Mark Twain's first mining town — dismantled brick by brick.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Fresno area to see them in place.