State atlas · filed under UT
Ghost Towns of Utah
Utah's ghosts pair mining canyons — silver, gold, and coal camps from the Oquirrhs to Carbon County — with agricultural experiments the desert refused: dry-farm colonies, flood-plagued river settlements, and towns the government itself dissolved.
384 sites surveyed across Utah — 11 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 384 vanished or historical sites in Utah — 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.
Society Pro
See Utah as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
184 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Utah. 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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Utah — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.