Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near Oklahoma City
The survey records 90 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of Oklahoma City, OK. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Vanished Place
The town that sheltered the Doolin gang — and paid for it in one famous gunfight.
Near-Abandoned
Once the biggest cattle-shipping railhead in Kansas — now sixty people on the Oklahoma line.
Near-Abandoned
'There is no place like Texola' — a Route 66 town on the Texas line, nearly emptied.
Near-Abandoned
A farm town named for four sacred hills the Comanche held holy.
Vanished Place
A cement company town swallowed by the woods above Elk City Lake.
Vanished Place
America's most toxic town — 14,000 people, dissolved by its own mines.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the Oklahoma City area to see them in place.