State atlas · filed under NV
Ghost Towns of Nevada
Nevada is the ghost-town state — more abandoned towns than living ones, by most counts — because nearly everything here was built on a vein: silver and gold camps that boomed in months and died with the ore.
1,920 sites surveyed across Nevada — 18 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 1,920 vanished or historical sites in Nevada — 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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Nevada — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.