Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Louisville
The survey records 1,296 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Louisville, KY. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
Frontier Indiana's boomtown county seat, emptied by a single summer's epidemic.
Historic Townsite
A coal camp rebuilt as ghosts on purpose — steel outlines where the houses stood.
Historic Townsite
The first Stearns coal camp — rebuilt board by board as a living museum.
Near-Abandoned
The bank that (allegedly) refused Chicago — left behind when the town fled the river.
Vanished Place
A farm town under the widest part of Norris Lake — the 'Loyston Sea.'
Vanished Place
Ohio's most haunted-storied tunnel is all that's left of a coal hamlet.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Louisville area to see them in place.