Road-trip index
Ghost Towns near San Antonio
The survey records 85 vanished or historical sites within 100 miles of San Antonio, TX. Here's what's closest — and which places have full records worth planning a day around.
Charted towns within range
Indianola, TX~137 mi
Vanished Place
The port that rivaled Galveston — erased so thoroughly Texans made it a proverb.
Sherwood, TX~188 mi
Near-Abandoned
A lost county seat whose 1901 stone courthouse still stands empty in the grass.
Belle Plain, TX~206 mi
Vanished Place
A county seat with a college and twenty grand pianos — gone in thirty years.
Thurber, TX~213 mi
Historic Townsite
Texas's great coal-and-brick company town — 8,000 people owned lock, stock, and payroll.
Closest surveyed sites — records pending
Bulverde East, TX~24 mi
Bulverde South, TX~24 mi
Bulverde West, TX~24 mi
Buffalo Springs, TX~33 mi
Mineral Springs, TX~55 mi
Westbrook, TX~58 mi
Shiloh, TX~81 mi
Old Round Rock, TX~90 mi
Pleasant Grove, TX~97 mi
Dabney, TX~98 mi
Every one of these is on the national atlas map — zoom into the San Antonio area to see them in place.