State atlas · filed under ND
Ghost Towns of North Dakota
North Dakota may lose towns faster than anywhere east of Nevada: rail-line villages of the homestead boom, emptied by drought, depression, and seventy years of farm consolidation — many with elevators still standing.
161 sites surveyed across North Dakota — 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 161 vanished or historical sites in North Dakota — 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 North Dakota — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.