State atlas · filed under VT
Ghost Towns of Vermont
Vermont's abandonments are pastoral: hillside farm districts and their villages emptied by merino collapse and western migration, plus quarry and logging settlements the forest has swallowed whole.
177 sites surveyed across Vermont — 1 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 177 vanished or historical sites in Vermont — 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 Vermont as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
323 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Vermont. 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 Vermont — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.