Ghost Towns, Arizona
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- Adamsville — Ghost Town · Pinal County, AZ
One of Pinal County’s earliest Anglo farming settlements (founded 1870s on the Gila River west of Florence). Floods and the rise of Florence emptied the town…
- Allenville — Ghost Town · Maricopa County, AZ
Flood-abandoned mid-20th-century all-Black farming community east of Buckeye on the Gila River floodplain—founded 1944 when John Allen subdivided a square mi…
- Bonita — Ghost Town · Graham County, AZ
Sparse Fort Grant-era supply hamlet on the south flank of the Pinaleños where the late-1800s Bonita Store and a few ranch buildings mark a once-busy stop for…
- Bumble Bee — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
Bradshaw Mountains stage and cavalry stop and mining camp established in 1863 on Bumble Bee Creek. Later faux-Old-West tourist rebuilds were largely removed;…
- Canyon Diablo — Ghost Town · Coconino County, AZ
Railroad construction camp and rough frontier town settled about 1880 on the rim of Canyon Diablo while the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad bridged the gorge. It…
- Castle Dome Mines Museum — Ghost Town · Yuma County, AZ
Preserved mining camp of the Castle Dome district—Arizona’s longest-worked silver-lead district—now a private museum ghost town with 50+ relocated and restor…
- Charleston Historic Townsite — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
San Pedro River mill and supply town (1870s–1880s) that fed Tombstone’s silver boom; sister site Millville sat across the river. Today only foundations, wall…
- Cherry — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
Black Hills (Yavapai) gold-mining camp between Dewey and Camp Verde with a post office from 1884 to 1943 and peak population near four hundred around several…
- Chloride — Ghost Town · Mohave County, AZ
Chloride is one of Arizona’s oldest continuously inhabited mining camps, silver-rich from the 1860s in the Cerbat Mountains. False-front buildings, galleries…
- Christmas — Ghost Town · Gila County, AZ
Copper camp in the Dripping Spring Range north of the Gila River, named when reservation-boundary resurveys reopened claims around Christmas. A thin Gila-cou…
- Cleator — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
Tiny Bradshaw Mountains mining hamlet on the dirt Senator Highway between I-17 and Crown King, with weathered false-front buildings and the still-operating C…
- Constellation — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
Short-lived Black Rock district camp northeast of Wickenburg, intended as a local service center for surrounding gold mines. Townsite fabric is thin; field i…
- Contention City — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
1880s San Pedro River silver-milling boomtown for Tombstone-area ore, centered on the Contention and Grand Central mills. Peak population was about two hundr…
- Courtland — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Copper-boom ghost town (founded 1909, post office closed 1942) on the Ghost Town Trail between Gleeson and Pearce at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains. Peak …
- Dos Cabezas — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Ghost town in the Dos Cabezas Mountains of Cochise County—Spanish for “two heads,” after twin peaks—once a mining camp and ranch community near five thousand…
- Fairbank Historic Townsite — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Quiet BLM ghost town on the San Pedro River about ten miles west of Tombstone, with a restored schoolhouse, mercantile ruins, and short interpretive walks. O…
- Forepaugh — Ghost Town · Maricopa County, AZ
Abandoned railroad siding and short-lived early-20th-century settlement west of Wickenburg on the desert flats near US 60—post office 1910–1916 with minor or…
- Gleeson — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Copper-camp ghost town on the south slope of the Dragoon Mountains, on the Ghost Town Trail with Courtland and Pearce. Peak early-1900s mining left foundatio…
- Hardyville — Ghost Town · Mohave County, AZ
Colorado River ferry town and Mohave County seat founded in the 1860s by William Hardy at a major crossing on the Arizona–California river corridor. Steamers…
- Harshaw — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Silver-mining camp south of Patagonia in the Patagonia Mountains, active from the 1870s–1880s with later revivals. Today forest roads pass adobe ruins, the F…
- Helvetia — Ghost Town · Pima County, AZ
Santa Rita foothills copper camp south of Tucson, active around the turn of the twentieth century. Field pin for cemetery, foundations, and district roads—di…
- Jerome — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
Jerome clings to Cleopatra Hill above the Verde Valley, once a roaring copper camp that briefly ranked among Arizona’s largest towns. After the mines closed …
- Kentucky Camp — Ghost Town · Pima County, AZ
Coronado National Forest historic mining and ranch headquarters of the Santa Rita Water and Mining Company (1902–1906) in the foothills west of Sonoita. Rest…
- Klondyke — Ghost Town · Graham County, AZ
Remote early-1900s mining and ranching hamlet in western Graham County near the east approach to Aravaipa Canyon. Best known for the Power family saga and as…
- La Paz — Ghost Town · La Paz County, AZ
Colorado River gold-rush town founded in 1862 after Pauline Weaver’s placer discovery; it briefly was among the largest settlements in the new Arizona Territ…
- Lochiel — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Quiet former border hamlet in the San Rafael Valley where a U.S. customs station once faced Mexico across a lonely cattle country road. Scattered historic bu…
- Metcalf — Ghost Town · Greenlee County, AZ
Company copper town above the San Francisco River near Clifton, built for the Detroit / Arizona Copper operations that fed the great Morenci–Clifton district…
- Nothing — Ghost Town · Mohave County, AZ
Novelty U.S. 93 roadside settlement established in 1977 between Wickenburg and Wikieup that once held a gas station, mini-mart, and peak population of four. …
- Oatman — Ghost Town · Mohave County, AZ
Oatman is a living Route 66 mining town in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona. Gold booms of the 1910s left false-front streets that now host shop…
- Paradise — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Chiricahua Mountains mining camp west of Portal, settled in 1901 after a copper and silver find, with a post office from 1901 to 1943. Peak fabric included s…
- Pearce — Ghost Town · Cochise County, AZ
Pearce grew after the 1894 Commonwealth gold strike on the east flank of the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County. A few commercial ruins and a cemetery remai…
- Ruby — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Ruby is a remarkably intact early-20th-century mining camp in the Oro Blanco Mountains near the Mexican border. Schoolhouse, jail, homes, and mill ruins surv…
- Sasco — Ghost Town · Pinal County, AZ
Smelter town built for the Southern Arizona Smelting Company on the desert north of the Santa Cruz–Ironwood country. Ore from Silver Bell and nearby camps on…
- Signal — Ghost Town · Mohave County, AZ
Silver-and-gold mining camp on the Big Sandy River in southern Mohave County, established about 1876 with a post office from 1877 to 1932. Peak population wa…
- Stanton — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
1870s Weaver mining-district gold camp east of Congress / north of Wickenburg. Stage-stop and ranching town associated with the Rich Hill placers; a handful …
- Sundad — Ghost Town · Maricopa County, AZ
Abandoned desert settlement in western Maricopa County south of the Gila River country, tied to the 1920s Maricopa Chief / Sundad copper prospects and later …
- Swansea — Ghost Town · La Paz County, AZ
Remote copper-smelter ghost town on BLM land between Parker and Bouse, with restored miners' cabins, mill foundations, a railroad grade, and two cemeteries. …
- Tip Top — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
1870s–80s silver camp in the Tip Top district of the southern Bradshaw foothills, once a busy mill-and-mine cluster with multiple claims and a short boom rep…
- Two Guns — Ghost Town · Coconino County, AZ
Defunct Route 66 and Interstate 40 roadside complex on the east rim of Canyon Diablo between Flagstaff and Winslow. Peak tourist years in the 1920s–1940s und…
- Vulture City Ghost Town — Ghost Town · Maricopa County, AZ
Preserved company town of the Vulture Mine (discovered 1863), one of Arizona’s richest historic gold producers southwest of Wickenburg. More than a dozen ori…
- Walker — Ghost Town · Yavapai County, AZ
Bradshaw Mountains mining camp southeast of Prescott, tied to early gold activity and later forest-road access. A thin mountain ghost for district roads, kil…
- Washington Camp — Ghost Town · Santa Cruz County, AZ
Patagonia Mountains silver-lead mining camp south of Harshaw that thrived in the late 19th–early 20th centuries. Townsite remnants and mill-era footprints si…
- White Hills — Ghost Town · Mohave County, AZ
Silver-boom camp north of Kingman in the White Hills, briefly the largest mining settlement in Mohave County in the 1890s with mills, power, and a short-live…