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Ghost Towns of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's abandonments are anthracite and bituminous: patch towns by the hundred, company-built and company-closed — with Centralia, condemned over its still-burning mine fire, as the modern emblem.

1,364 sites surveyed across Pennsylvania — 5 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 1,364 vanished or historical sites in Pennsylvania — 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

Frick's LockChester Co.1824–19850Verified Ghost Town Eckley Miners' VillageLuzerne Co.1854–197015Historic Townsite Pithole CityVenango Co.1865–18770Vanished Place CentraliaColumbia Co.1866–19925Near-Abandoned Concrete CityLuzerne Co.1911–19240Verified Ghost Town

Society Pro

See Pennsylvania as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919

1,077 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Pennsylvania. 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.

8,381mine features

2,797mineral sites

1,531lost places

1,077survey sheets

The full survey ledger

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

AlleghenyAllegheny Co.AlviraUnion Co.BarbertownLackawanna Co.BeidlertownBerks Co.Bell RoadPhiladelphia Co.Bills PlaceFulton Co.BlackburnWestmoreland Co.Blue MarshBerks Co.BrooklynBerks Co.CentervilleIndiana Co.CliffsBedford Co.ClokeyvilleWashington Co.CokevilleWestmoreland Co.CoopertownDelaware Co.CorezeDelaware Co.CornplanterWarren Co.CorydonWarren Co.CoxtownDauphin Co.DouglassvilleNorthampton Co.DutotsburgMonroe Co.EckertLehigh Co.EstherBeaver Co.FoundryvilleLuzerne Co.FritzLycoming Co.Furnace HillBerks Co.Glen HopeChester Co.GlendaleClearfield Co.GoldenYork Co.GowangoWarren Co.GrundervilleWarren Co.HartzellLehigh Co.Hickory RunCarbon Co.HillsideMontgomery Co.Iron HillNorthampton Co.JacobsburgNorthampton Co.KinzuaWarren Co.KlondikeTioga Co.LarosLehigh Co.LexingtonErie Co.LincolntownBerks Co.LoyalsockLycoming Co.MascotClearfield Co.MexicoBerks Co.Middle CreekSchuylkill Co.Mill CityWyoming Co.MorrisonMcKean Co.NeshaminyBucks Co.New BergenPotter Co.New GalenaBucks Co.Nippono ParkLycoming Co.North SulgerJefferson Co.NorthcraftFulton Co.OlmsteadWarren Co.PageHuntingdon Co.Pigeon HillsYork Co.Pleasant GroveYork Co.Poe MillsCentre Co.PritchardTioga Co.Purple BrookTioga Co.QueonemysingDelaware Co.RippleLuzerne Co.RobindaleIndiana Co.Sandy HillFayette Co.SilvertownBerks Co.South BirdsboroBerks Co.South SulgerJefferson Co.Sugar RunWarren Co.SulgerJefferson Co.SwamprootMercer Co.TartownAdams Co.TexasBerks Co.TunnelvilleArmstrong Co.UhlersvilleNorthampton Co.WallnerLehigh Co.WatsondaleFayette Co.WelagamikaNorthampton Co.West MiddletownWashington Co.ZoraAdams Co.

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