State atlas · filed under TN
Ghost Towns of Tennessee
Tennessee's vanished places run from Smokies logging towns preserved mid-decay inside the national park to copper-basin and coal company towns, with river landings drowned by TVA lakes.
2,272 sites surveyed across Tennessee — 2 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 2,272 vanished or historical sites in Tennessee — 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 Tennessee — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.