State atlas · filed under NJ
Ghost Towns of New Jersey
New Jersey's Pine Barrens hide bog-iron furnace towns that lost to Pennsylvania coal, glassworks villages, and cranberry company towns — industrial ghosts in the East's unlikeliest wilderness.
369 sites surveyed across New Jersey — 3 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 369 vanished or historical sites in New Jersey — 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.
Society Pro
See New Jersey as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
504 USGS survey sheets from those years cover New Jersey. 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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in New Jersey — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.