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Ghost Towns of Nebraska

Nebraska's disappearances are quiet ones: homestead-era villages and rail sidings that consolidation, drought cycles, and the highway system slowly unwound rather than any single bust.

484 sites surveyed across Nebraska — 3 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.

✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending

Survey note

The federal place-name archive records 484 vanished or historical sites in Nebraska — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.

TownYearsLast pop.Classification

St. DeroinNemaha Co.1854–19200Vanished Place DobytownKearney Co.1859–18720Vanished Place AntiochSheridan Co.1916–19300Vanished Place

Society Pro

See Nebraska as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919

184 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Nebraska. Pro lays them over today's map with a swipe between then and now, and adds every mine feature, lost place and mineral site the federal record holds for the state.

1,775mine features

86mineral sites

1,728lost places

184survey sheets

The full survey ledger

Every vanished town the federal archive records in Nebraska — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.

AbdalNuckolls Co.AdatonSheridan Co.AdmahWashington Co.AlbanySheridan Co.AragoRichardson Co.ArcherRichardson Co.ArgoBurt Co.ArmourPawnee Co.AthensRichardson Co.BakerBoyd Co.BasfordBurt Co.BismarckCuming Co.Blaine CenterBlaine Co.BowerJefferson Co.BricktonAdams Co.CaldwellScotts Bluff Co.CamdenSeward Co.CarnsKeya Paha Co.CharlestownYork Co.CioOtoe Co.ClevelandHolt Co.CornellHitchcock Co.CovingtonDakota Co.Cummings ParkCuster Co.DaleCuster Co.DeltaOtoe Co.EltonCuster Co.FairviewMadison Co.FairviewSarpy Co.GeraniumValley Co.GlencoeDodge Co.GrafJohnson Co.GraysonSheridan Co.HeadquartersWheeler Co.Heil SchoolHooker Co.HelenaJohnson Co.HiltonSheridan Co.IoniaDixon Co.JenningsSheridan Co.KanoshaCass Co.Kearney CityKearney Co.KentLoup Co.LuluSheridan Co.MarpleSheridan Co.MarysvilleSeward Co.MeridianJefferson Co.MissionPawnee Co.MyrtleLincoln Co.NantasketBuffalo Co.NohartRichardson Co.OrdvilleCheyenne Co.PaplinHoward Co.PellaLancaster Co.PetersSheridan Co.PlattfordSarpy Co.RescueSaunders Co.RiversideBurt Co.Rock BluffCass Co.RosedaleBoyd Co.Saint DeroinNemaha Co.SawyerFillmore Co.Spring RanchClay Co.StoddardThayer Co.TatePawnee Co.Valley CityKearney Co.VintonValley Co.VioletPawnee Co.West RandolphPierce Co.West UnionCuster Co.WheelerWheeler Co.WilliamsThayer Co.WilliamsvilleRichardson Co.Willow SpringsGarfield Co.WinfieldBrown Co.YanctonRichardson Co.

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