State atlas · filed under OR
Ghost Towns of Oregon
Oregon's ghosts are gold camps in the blue mountains and high desert homestead towns — the state's dryland southeast emptied within a generation of proving up — plus coastal and Cascade timber company towns.
3,015 sites surveyed across Oregon — 6 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 3,015 vanished or historical sites in Oregon — 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 Oregon — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.