State atlas · filed under NM

Ghost Towns of New Mexico

New Mexico layers its abandonments: pueblo and Hispano villages left in drought and raid centuries ago, then coal camps like Dawson and Madrid, mining towns, and Route 66 strips the interstate passed by.

1,119 sites surveyed across New Mexico — 8 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 1,119 vanished or historical sites in New Mexico — 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

ShakespeareHidalgo Co.1870–19350Historic Townsite CabezonSandoval Co.1870–19470Verified Ghost Town Lake ValleySierra Co.1878–18950Historic Townsite White OaksLincoln Co.1879–190015Near-Abandoned ChlorideSierra Co.1880–192320Near-Abandoned GoldenSanta Fe Co.1880–192819Near-Abandoned MogollonCatron Co.1889–194215Near-Abandoned DawsonColfax Co.1901–19500Vanished Place

Society Pro

See New Mexico as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919

247 USGS survey sheets from those years cover New Mexico. 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.

18,709mine features

8,119mineral sites

947lost places

247survey sheets

The full survey ledger

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

AguaSanta Fe Co.Agua NegraGuadalupe Co.AlamoGuadalupe Co.AlhambraGrant Co.AllenQuay Co.AnalcoSanta Fe Co.AnchorTaos Co.AnnistonQuay Co.Armenta PlazaHarding Co.AugustineSocorro Co.BacaLincoln Co.BensonRoosevelt Co.BerrendoChaves Co.BiggsRio Arriba Co.Black HawkGrant Co.BlackdomChaves Co.Bonanza CitySanta Fe Co.Border CityLuna Co.BuchananDe Baca Co.Burns CanyonRio Arriba Co.Cabra SpringsSan Miguel Co.CanodeQuay Co.CantonDe Baca Co.Cedar GroveLuna Co.ChapatalitoSanta Fe Co.Cherry ValleyMora Co.CherryvilleSocorro Co.CienegaOtero Co.Copper CitySandoval Co.CorazonSan Miguel Co.CorrumpaUnion Co.CowanQuay Co.CoyoteSandoval Co.CraigSocorro Co.CuatesUnion Co.DawsonColfax Co.Deep TunnelColfax Co.DiamanteRio Arriba Co.DoloresSanta Fe Co.DustySocorro Co.Eagle HillRoosevelt Co.East CampGrant Co.East Las VegasSan Miguel Co.EilandRoosevelt Co.Emery GapUnion Co.EscondidoLincoln Co.FaywoodGrant Co.FordQuay Co.FrazierChaves Co.FrioQuay Co.FrostBernalillo Co.FruitvaleBernalillo Co.FullertonCatron Co.GarciaUnion Co.GibsonMcKinley Co.GibsonMcKinley Co.Gold HillGrant Co.HaganSandoval Co.Halls PeakMora Co.HanleyQuay Co.HartfordQuay Co.HeatonMcKinley Co.HematiteColfax Co.HopewellRio Arriba Co.Howiri-Ouinge Historic SiteTaos Co.IngramRoosevelt Co.IvanhoeGrant Co.KempBernalillo Co.KirkQuay Co.La BelleTaos Co.La CintaSan Miguel Co.La CuevaRio Arriba Co.La JoyitaSocorro Co.Las CocinitasSandoval Co.LeitendorfHidalgo Co.LoboTaos Co.LongsRoosevelt Co.LookoutEddy Co.LorettaColfax Co.MadisonUnion Co.MaloneGrant Co.ManchesterLincoln Co.Masons MillGrant Co.MidnightTaos Co.Missouri PlazaChaves Co.ModocDoña Ana Co.MonicaSocorro Co.MonistaOtero Co.MontezumaSandoval Co.MorenoColfax Co.New HopeRoosevelt Co.NewtonGrant Co.NolanMora Co.OgleQuay Co.OrtizSanta Fe Co.Palo BlancoColfax Co.ParajeSocorro Co.Paxton SpringsCibola Co.PerryvilleColfax Co.PlainQuay Co.Pleasant ValleyQuay Co.PoundsRio Arriba Co.PuertoQuay Co.Red LakeRoosevelt Co.RicardoDe Baca Co.RosaRio Arriba Co.RosedaleSocorro Co.RoundtopTorrance Co.San AntonioRio Arriba Co.Santa GertrudisMora Co.Santa RitaGrant Co.ShillingburgSan Juan Co.SombrioGuadalupe Co.SteeplerockGrant Co.SweetwaterColfax Co.TafoyaColfax Co.TajoSocorro Co.Tank CanyonCibola Co.TateUnion Co.TejonSandoval Co.TelegraphGrant Co.VaquerosRio Arriba Co.Vera CruzLincoln Co.WaldoSanta Fe Co.WeaverMcKinley Co.White LakesSanta Fe Co.Willow SpringsUnion Co.

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