State atlas · filed under OK
Ghost Towns of Oklahoma
Oklahoma's ghosts came fast: land-run townsites that lost the county seat, oil-boom cities that moved with the play, Dust Bowl farm towns, and the lead-zinc towns of the Tri-State district — Picher among them, evacuated over its own mine waste.
148 sites surveyed across Oklahoma — 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 148 vanished or historical sites in Oklahoma — 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 Oklahoma — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.