Ghost Towns

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Nevada (116)

Alpha — Eureka County, NV
Short-lived Eureka & Palisade Railroad way town and mining camp that peaked about 1874–75 with a hotel and saloons. After the narrow-gauge line pushed throug…
American Flat — Storey County, NV
Comstock-era mill flat and short-lived townsite just SW of Gold Hill / Virginia City where large reduction mills processed ore from the lode. The historic po…
Atlanta — Lincoln County, NV
Silver camp in the Atlanta district of the Wilson Creek Range country, east of the Pioche–Delamar mineral belt. A thin eastern Nevada ghost for a named camp …
Aurora — Mineral County, NV
Nevada's most substantial but least-visited ghost town ruins. Produced $30M in silver-gold, was claimed simultaneously by both California and Nevada, and Mar…
Aurum — White Pine County, NV
Aurum is a little-visited White Pine County mining camp with stone foundations and scattered relics in high desert hills. Boom-and-bust cycles left little st…
Bellehelen — Nye County, NV
Early 1900s silver-lead camp in the Kawich Range country east of Tonopah approaches. A short boom left mill and camp scatter on remote district roads—classic…
Belleville — Mineral County, NV
1873–1890s mill town built by the Northern Belle Mining Company to process Candelaria silver ore. Twin 20-stamp mills (Lower 1875, Upper 1876), newspaper, an…
Belmont — Nye County, NV
Remarkably intact silver camp in Monitor Valley. The 1876 Nye County Courthouse still stands — roofless but solid — alongside mill ruins, a saloon foundation…
Berlin Ghost Town — Nye County, NV
Part of Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park with 30 original structures including a mill, assay office, and miners cabins. A separate fossil shelter nearby protect…
Berlin Mill (separate ruins) — Nye County, NV
The Berlin stamp mill stands with the preserved Berlin townsite inside Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park—one of Nevada’s most intact industrial mining scenes. Mu…
Bernice — Churchill County, NV
Churchill County silver camp in the Bernice / Clan Alpine country northeast of Dixie Valley, briefly called Casket or Caskett, with a post office in the earl…
Betty O'Neal — Lander County, NV
Long-lived silver camp in the Lewis District south of Battle Mountain. After 1880s disasters, a major 1920s revival under Noble Getchell built a large flotat…
Blair — Esmeralda County, NV
Short-lived Silver Peak district boomtown built 1906 when the Pittsburg-Silver Peak Gold Mining Company laid out a company town three miles north of Silver P…
Bonnie Claire — Nye County, NV
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad siding turned supply town for Death Valley mines. Crumbling adobe foundations, a rusted water tank, and old rail grade remnant…
Bovard — Mineral County, NV
Short-lived 1908 silver camp in the Gabbs Valley Range founded by Rawhide prospectors after Al Bovard’s discovery. A rival tent town (Lorena) briefly compete…
Bristol Well — Lincoln County, NV
National Register silver-lead-copper milling townsite northwest of Pioche, also known as National City / Bristol City / Tempest. Boom-era charcoal kilns, sto…
Broken Hills — Mineral County, NV
Small silver camp in the Mineral County hills with stone foundations and scattered ruins in a barren landscape. Documented by desert4wd.com with 15 site photos.
Bullfrog — Nye County, NV
The discovery site of the Bullfrog Mining District in 1904, just a mile from Rhyolite. The original Bullfrog townsite had hotels, saloons, and a post office …
Cambridge — Lyon County, NV
East Walker River mill camp and settlement that supported the Wilson–Cambridge mining district below Pine Grove. Stone cabin, dugouts, mill foundations, and …
Candelaria — Mineral County, NV
Silver mining camp producing over $5M in the 1880s in the Monte Cristo Range. Stone ruins line a barren hillside and a historic cemetery has legible headston…
Carrara — Nye County, NV
A marble quarry town 9 miles south of Beatty — Nevada's desert version of its Italian namesake. The American Carrara Marble Company laid out the townsite in …
Cherry Creek — White Pine County, NV
An 1870s silver camp at the base of the Cherry Creek Mountains. Stone ruins and an old jail remain. The drive through the valley is beautiful and the site is…
Clan Alpine — Churchill County, NV
1864 silver mining camp on the east flank of the Clan Alpine Mountains (Cherry Creek drainage), with a short-lived stamp mill at the canyon base. Ore proved …
Cloverdale — Nye County, NV
Ranch-and-stage settlement in Cloverdale Valley west of the Toiyabe approaches that also supported nearby mining traffic. Thin cottonwood-and-foundation land…
Coaldale — Esmeralda County, NV
Abandoned mid-century highway stop at the junction of US-6 and US-95 in the Tonopah Basin — a cluster of empty motel, café, and gas-station shells left after…
Cobre — Elko County, NV
Cobre was a short-lived railroad and copper-shipping town near the Nevada–Utah line in Elko County. A handful of structures and rail-era relics sit in open d…
Columbus — Esmeralda County, NV
Remote borax and silver camp in the Candelaria Hills with 13 documented photo locations on desert4wd.com. Stone foundations, mill ruins, and isolated desert …
Como — Lyon County, NV
1860s gold camp in the Pine Nut Mountains southeast of Dayton—briefly a booming Palmyra Mining District town with hotels, mills, a newspaper (the Como Sentin…
Cornucopia — Humboldt County, NV
Extremely remote gold camp in the Santa Rosa Range near the Oregon border. Almost never visited. Stone ruins of several buildings survive in an alpine settin…
Cortez — Lander County, NV
1860s silver camp on the east side of the Cortez Mountains, later absorbed into one of Nevada’s great modern gold districts. Historic townsite buildings and …
Daveytown — Humboldt County, NV
Abandoned gold camp on the east flank of the Slumbering Hills in Humboldt County, about twenty-four miles north-northwest of Winnemucca. It took its name fro…
Delamar — Lincoln County, NV
Called "The Widowmaker" — dry milling of silica gold ore killed over 1,000 miners from silicosis. Remote stone walls, a large cemetery, and mill foundation s…
Delano — Elko County, NV
Gold-mining district center in far northeastern Elko County, about thirty-six miles north of Montello near the Idaho line. Production ran intermittently from…
Diamond City — Eureka County, NV
1860s–1880s silver camp on the west side of the Diamond Mountains with a Champion Mining Co. smelter (1873), stone cabin, and surviving charcoal kiln that fu…
Downeyville — Nye County, NV
Short-lived mining camp in the Paradise Peak / Downeyville district near the Nye–Churchill line west of Ione country. Another thin central Nevada ghost for d…
Dun Glen — Pershing County, NV
1860s silver and copper camp in the Humboldt Range with stone walls, mill ruins, and a picturesque cemetery. Was briefly the county seat. One of the Humboldt…
Ellsworth — Nye County, NV
Tiny silver camp in the Nye County hills with scattered stone foundations and mine dumps across a quiet desert hillside. One of Nevada's more obscure and sel…
Fairview — Churchill County, NV
Silver boom town east of Fallon that rose after 1905 discoveries, briefly supporting newspapers, hotels, and a large camp population before fading by World W…
Farrell — Pershing County, NV
Seven Troughs Range gold camp at the north end of the district (Stonehouse Canyon area), with post office 1907–1911. The 1912 district flood and later downtu…
Flanigan — Washoe County, NV
Former railroad crossroads settlement in Honey Lake Valley, Washoe County, a few miles east of the California line. Once a section stop with a store and dwel…
Gilbert — Esmeralda County, NV
Remote 1920s gold camp in the Monte Cristo Range country of Esmeralda County. Short-lived boom left scattered ruins and diggings on high desert public land n…
Gold Butte Townsite — Clark County, NV
Abandoned mining camp that gave its name to the surrounding Gold Butte country, now inside Gold Butte National Monument. Sparse ruins and desert roads mark t…
Gold Center — Nye County, NV
Short-lived supply and milling town in the Bullfrog Mining District, founded in December 1904 south of Beatty and Rhyolite. It briefly supported a post offic…
Gold Hill (Comstock) — Storey County, NV
Gold Hill sits on the Comstock Lode just south of Virginia City, a streetscape of historic homes, mine works, and highway traffic through a still-lived-in mi…
Gold Point (Hornsilver) — Esmeralda County, NV
Originally called Lime Point, then Hornsilver for its high-grade silver ore. Renamed Gold Point in the 1930s when gold became dominant. One of the best-prese…
Goldfield — Esmeralda County, NV
Nevada's largest city in 1907 with 30,000 residents and $86M in gold. Grand crumbling buildings still line Main Street. Jack Johnson won his heavyweight titl…
Goodsprings — Clark County, NV
Southern Nevada's most accessible ghost town, booming on lead, zinc, and gold from the 1890s through WWII. The Pioneer Club saloon still operates. Clark Gabl…
Grantsville — Nye County, NV
Union Canyon silver camp west of Ione, named for Ulysses S. Grant after 1863 discoveries and revived after 1877 with a large stamp mill. Schoolhouse, mill ru…
Hamilton (separate ridge ruins) — White Pine County, NV
Treasure Hill and the ridge ruins above Hamilton hold mill foundations, stone walls, and diggings from White Pine’s 1868–70s silver boom—distinct from the ma…
Hamilton / Treasure City — White Pine County, NV
Two adjacent silver boomtowns atop an 8,000-ft ridge that held 15,000 people in 1869. Courthouse ruins, stone walls, and a dramatic mountain setting make thi…
Hardin City — Humboldt County, NV
Short-lived Black Rock Desert silver-rush camp on the west slope of the Black Rock Range (late 1850s–1860s), named for James Allen Hardin’s rumored silver fi…
Humboldt City — Pershing County, NV
Early silver camp in Humboldt Canyon on the west flank of the Humboldt Range, ~10 mi SW of Mill City and a few miles SE of I-80. Settled in the early 1860s w…
Illipah — White Pine County, NV
Illipah is a sparse White Pine County mining locale along US-50 east of Eureka. Scattered foundations and diggings sit in high cold-desert sage country with …
Ione — Nye County, NV
Quiet semi-inhabited silver camp in the Shoshone Mountains with intact 19th-century stone and adobe buildings including a beautiful old stone church. Canyon …
Jackrabbit — Lincoln County, NV
Silver camp on the east side of the Bristol Range, first called Royal City (1876) and later Jackrabbit. A store, saloon, boarding house, and brief post offic…
Jarbidge — Elko County, NV
Nevada's most remote town and site of the last stagecoach robbery in US history (1916). About five people still live here. Jarbidge Wilderness has deep grani…
Jessup — Churchill County, NV
1908 gold–silver boom camp in a volcanic caldera a few miles north of I-80 between Fernley and Lovelock (Exit 78 still signed Jessup). Peak population near 3…
Johnnie — Nye County, NV
Gold camp and residual populated place in the Johnnie Mining District on the west slope of the Spring Mountains foothills, roughly fifteen miles north of Pah…
Johntown — Lyon County, NV
Gold Canyon’s first permanent mining camp (mid-1850s), established by “Old Virginny” Finney and placer miners years before the 1859 Comstock Lode discovery a…
Jungo — Humboldt County, NV
Railroad- and highway-era stop on Humboldt County Route 55 (former State Route 49) between Winnemucca and Sulphur. The place once held a hotel, store, fillin…
Kennedy — Pershing County, NV
1890s gold camp on the east flank of the East Range (Granite Mountain) that briefly boomed after Charles E. Kennedy’s Imperial Mine discovery — stamp mill, c…
Lane City — White Pine County, NV
Early White Pine mining camp (originally Mineral City era roots) a few miles northwest of Ely along the US-50/93 corridor. Thin standing remains include the …
Lida — Esmeralda County, NV
Tiny remote silver camp in the Palmetto Mountains near the California border. Stone foundations and prospect pits remain in extraordinary isolation with pano…
Logandale / St. Joseph — Clark County, NV
First established as a Mormon fort in 1865 on the Muddy River. The Huntsman Adobe (c.1888) is the oldest building in Moapa Valley. The St. Joseph Cemetery ho…
Lucky Boy — Mineral County, NV
Silver-lead camp on the east flank of the Wassuk Range above Hawthorne, born from a 1906 road-crew ore discovery and rushed in 1909. Population briefly near …
Ludwig — Lyon County, NV
Singatse Range copper camp (originally Morningstar) rebuilt by the Nevada-Douglas Copper Company and terminus of the Nevada Copper Belt Railroad after 1911. …
Manhattan — Nye County, NV
A gold camp that refused to die — boomed in 1905, surged again in the 1930s with placer gold dredging. A small population still lives here. Old dredge tailin…
Marietta — Mineral County, NV
A borax and salt mining camp in the Mineral County desert with extensive ruins documented in 35 desert4wd.com photos. Nearby salt marsh makes for an unusual …
McGill — White Pine County, NV
Kennecott Copper company town built to house smelter workers for the Ruth open-pit mine. The massive smelter stack still dominates the skyline. Company store…
Metropolis — Elko County, NV
Nevada's only major non-mining ghost town — an ambitious 1910 irrigation farming utopia that collapsed from water rights lawsuits, jackrabbit invasions, and …
Metropolis School Ruins — Elko County, NV
Metropolis was a failed early-1900s farming colony north of Wells; the freestanding stone arch of Lincoln School is the iconic remnant. Open ranch country su…
Midas — Elko County, NV
Remote northern Nevada gold town in the Snowstorm Mountains. A false-front saloon and several original buildings still stand. Exceptionally isolated and rare…
Millers — Esmeralda County, NV
Tonopah-era railroad and milling camp on the Tonopah & Goldfield line (founded 1904; named for Charles R. Miller). Hosted a 100-stamp cyanide mill and T&G sh…
Mineral Hill — Eureka County, NV
Silver-lead camp discovered in 1869 on the east flank of the Mineral Hill range; boom population near 450–500 with a fifteen-stamp mill that produced more th…
National (Buckskin) — Humboldt County, NV
Extremely remote gold-silver camp in the Santa Rosa Range. Remarkable stone buildings and a partially intact mill survive at high elevation. One of Nevada's …
Nelson (Eldorado Canyon) — Clark County, NV
Nelson in Eldorado Canyon is a photogenic cluster of mining ruins, junked cars, and desert mountains between Boulder City and the Colorado River. Techatticup…
Oreana — Pershing County, NV
Historic milling settlement (1860s–1880s) on the Humboldt River corridor that processed ore from the Arabia and Trinity districts. Home of the Montezuma Smel…
Osceola — White Pine County, NV
Long-worked eastern Nevada placer gold camp (1872–mid-20th century) on the west slope of the Snake Range. A 12-mile gold-bearing vein discovery sparked hydra…
Palisade — Eureka County, NV
A railroad town that became famous for a long-running practical joke — locals staged fake gunfights and holdups whenever the train arrived, convincing hundre…
Palmetto — Esmeralda County, NV
Short-lived silver camp in the Palmetto Mountains of Esmeralda County, reworked in later rushes and now reduced to stone walls and prospect pits on an open r…
Paradise Valley — Humboldt County, NV
A beautiful agricultural and ranching town in a lush valley at the base of the Santa Rosa Range. Stone and brick buildings line the main street. The Paradise…
Pine Grove — Lyon County, NV
Gold and silver mining camp in the Sweetwater Mountains near the California border with 16 documented photo locations on desert4wd.com. The forested mountain…
Pioche — Lincoln County, NV
One of Nevada's most violent early mining camps — by 1872 the Boot Hill cemetery had 75 graves but no one had died of natural causes. The Million Dollar Cour…
Poeville — Washoe County, NV
Poeville (also called Poe City) was a 1860s–70s mining camp on the Peavine Mountain side above Reno/Stead. Little more than foundations and mining scars rema…
Potosi — Clark County, NV
Potosi Camp on the flanks of Mount Potosi is among southern Nevada’s earliest lode sites, worked for lead in the 1850s before later silver and zinc eras. Sca…
Ramsey — Lyon County, NV
1906 gold-boom camp in the Virginia Range east of the Comstock, laid out after the Ramsey brothers’ strike and briefly home to saloons, hotels, a newspaper, …
Ravenswood — Lander County, NV
Ravenswood is a remote Lander County silver camp reduced to stone ruins on quiet hills well off the tourist track. Expect rough dirt, no services, and total …
Rawhide — Mineral County, NV
Gold rush town that exploded to 10,000 people in 1907-08 then vanished. Tex Rickard ran a saloon here before building Madison Square Garden. Very little rema…
Reveille — Nye County, NV
Reveille was a remote 1860s silver camp in the Reveille Range, now reduced to stone ruins and foundations in open central Nevada country. Visitation is near …
Rhyolite — Nye County, NV
One of the West's most photogenic ghost towns — ballooned to 10,000 residents during the 1905 Death Valley gold rush then collapsed just as fast. The three-s…
Rochester — Pershing County, NV
Silver camp in the Humboldt Range with an intact false-front store, mill ruins, and dozens of cabin foundations spread across a steep canyon. One of northern…
Ruby Hill — Eureka County, NV
Major 1870s mining suburb of Eureka at the Richmond and Eureka Consolidated mines; peaked near 2,500 residents with schools, churches, newspapers, and a shor…
Saint Thomas — Clark County, NV
Mormon settlement founded in the 1860s at the Muddy–Virgin confluence, later a thriving Moapa Valley town abandoned in the 1930s as Lake Mead rose behind Hoo…
Scossa — Pershing County, NV
Small Pershing County mining townsite, now a ghost town, in desert ranges west of the Humboldt River corridor. Remains of a short-lived camp are sparse. It i…
Seven Troughs — Pershing County, NV
Gold rush camp that erupted in 1907, producing over $2M before collapsing by 1912. Extensive stone ruins, mill foundation, and historic cemetery survive in d…
Shafter — Elko County, NV
Railroad ghost town northeast of Wells where the Nevada Northern met the Western Pacific Feather River Route. Founded 1906 as Bews, renamed Shafter in 1907 f…
Sodaville — Mineral County, NV
US-95-side freight and railroad hub that served Candelaria, Tonopah, and Goldfield traffic from the soda-spring oasis once known as Soda Springs. Today a thi…
Star City — Pershing County, NV
Silver boom camp in the Humboldt Range that peaked in the mid-1860s with mills and roughly a thousand residents before the ore played out. Stone foundations,…
Sulphur — Humboldt County, NV
Western Pacific Feather River Route station and sulfur-mining camp on the east edge of the Black Rock Desert / Kamma Mountains. The railroad town and associa…
Sylvania — Esmeralda County, NV
Remote mining camp in the Sylvania Mountains southwest of Palmetto, with scattered cabins, vehicles, and mill remnants still standing on public desert roads.…
Tenabo — Lander County, NV
Bullion Mining District boomtown founded after 1905–07 gold-silver discoveries on the east side of the Shoshone Range; briefly reached ~1,000 residents with …
Tobar — Elko County, NV
Western Pacific construction camp turned railroad hamlet on Tobar Flat, Elko County, established in 1908 (also known as Clover City), with a post office 1911…
Tokop — Esmeralda County, NV
Short-lived early-1900s gold camp on the Gold Point 7.5′ quad, southeast of Gold Point / Hornsilver country. Claims staked around 1902; a small camp with a p…
Tunnel Camp — Pershing County, NV
Best-preserved camp in the Seven Troughs gold district west of Lovelock. Built in the late 1920s around a cyanide mill and long drain-tunnel project after th…
Tuscarora — Elko County, NV
Chinese miners made up a large portion of the workforce — their quarter's ruins are among the most intact Chinese historic sites in Nevada. Victorian homes, …
Tybo — Nye County, NV
Remote lead-silver camp in the Hot Creek Range with a standing stone charcoal kiln complex among the best-preserved in central Nevada. Documented extensively…
Unionville — Pershing County, NV
Mark Twain's first Nevada mining experience, immortalized in Roughing It (1872). He spent a disastrous winter here in 1861. Stone ruins line Buena Vista Cany…
Vanderbilt — Eureka County, NV
Silver-lead camp south of Eureka established after 1869–70 discoveries; briefly ~150 people with stores and a stamp mill before Eureka overshadowed it. Reviv…
Vernon — Pershing County, NV
Seven Troughs district mining camp founded in 1905 northwest of Lovelock, with a post office from 1906 to 1918. Stone jail remnants and foundation depression…
Virginia City — Storey County, NV
The most famous mining town in the American West — the Comstock Lode produced over $400M in silver and gold, transformed San Francisco, and funded the Union …
Vya — Washoe County, NV
Remote northwestern Washoe ghost settlement about ten miles east of the California line in High Rock / Massacre Rim country. A brief early-1900s ranch and po…
Washington (Storey) — Storey County, NV
Short-lived Comstock-era toll-road settlement on the Washington Toll Road (later Lousetown / SR 45 corridor) between the Truckee River at Lockwood and Virgin…
Washoe City — Washoe County, NV
First Washoe County seat (1861–1871) on the north shore of Washoe Lake, founded 1860 as a lumber and ore-milling camp serving the Comstock. Once lined with m…
Weepah — Esmeralda County, NV
Site of the last major U.S. gold-rush stampede (March–April 1927) on the SE slope of Lone Mountain SW of Tonopah — the so-called auto-camp rush. Brief tent c…
Wonder — Churchill County, NV
A 1906 gold-silver boom that peaked at 600 people and faded by 1919 when the mill closed. Collapsed wooden buildings and foundations melt into sagebrush 14 m…
Yankee Blade — Lander County, NV
1863 Reese River silver camp a few miles north of Austin, renamed for the first producing mine after an early Boston newspaper. By 1864–65 dozens of adobe/st…

California (40)

Atolia — San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave Desert tungsten (scheelite) camp east of Randsburg. Veins discovered 1904–05; Atolia Mining Company organized 1906 (Atkins + DeGolia portmanteau). WWI…
Bagdad — San Bernardino County, CA
Former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad and Route 66 service town in the Mojave between Amboy and Ludlow. It served as a water and section stop with ho…
Ballarat — Inyo County, CA
Remote gateway to the Panamint Mountains with crumbling structures, old cemetery, and usually one lone caretaker. Charles Manson's Barker Ranch is a rough dr…
Bennettville — Mono County, CA
Failed 1880s silver-camp site of the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Company on the high east side of Tioga Pass, just outside Yosemite’s east entrance. Pla…
Beveridge — Inyo County, CA
Hard-to-reach 1870s–1880s silver camp high in the Inyo Mountains above Saline Valley, once home to the Keynote Mine and a short boom of stores and miners’ ca…
Bodie State Historic Park — Mono County, CA
California's best-preserved gold-rush ghost town sits at ~8,400 ft in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra, maintained by State Parks in a deliberate state of …
Calico Ghost Town — San Bernardino County, CA
Silver-rush mining town (founded 1881) in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert, later restored and operated as Calico Ghost Town Regional Park by San Be…
Cerro Gordo — Inyo County, CA
High Inyo silver-lead boomtown (est. 1865) perched above Owens Lake; once among California's richest mines with a peak population in the thousands. Original …
Chloride City — Death Valley, CA
One of Death Valley’s earliest mining camps on the Funeral Mountains crest near Chloride Cliff—scattered ruins and workings above a rough dirt road, with cli…
Chrysopolis — Inyo County, CA
Short-lived Owens Valley mining camp on the east side of the valley north of Independence approaches. A thin Inyo ghost for a named silver-era settlement tha…
Cima — San Bernardino County, CA
Railroad pass town inside Mojave National Preserve on the Union Pacific (ex–Los Angeles & Salt Lake) line between the Ivanpah and Mojave River basins. A stor…
Darwin — Inyo County, CA
1870s silver-lead camp on the west approach to Death Valley, between the Argus and Coso ranges. Boom population once numbered in the thousands; a tiny living…
Dog Town — Mono County, CA
Site of the first major gold rush on the eastern slope of California’s Sierra Nevada (late 1850s), near the junction of Clearwater/Virginia and Dog Town Cree…
Dolomite — Inyo County, CA
An Owens Valley industrial ghost community on the east shore corridor of Owens Lake, born as a Carson & Colorado Railroad siding and expanded after 1885 when…
Garlock — Kern County, CA
1890s stamp-mill camp at the foot of the El Paso Mountains that crushed ore from the Rand Mining District (Yellow Aster and neighbors). California Historical…
Gold Town — Kern County, CA
Historical mining camp on the western edge of the Mojave Desert near the Soledad Mountain / Mojave approaches. A thin Kern desert ghost-town pin for the Gold…
Greenwater — Inyo County, CA
Short-lived copper boom town (1906–about 1909) on the east side of the Black Mountains in Death Valley country. At its peak Greenwater claimed banks, newspap…
Harrisburg — Inyo County, CA
1905 Shorty Harris / Pete Aguereberry gold camp in Death Valley National Park, better known today for Aguereberry Camp, the Eureka Mine, and Cashier Mill rui…
Hart — San Bernardino County, CA
Short-lived 1907–1915 gold boomtown in the Castle Mountains / eastern Mojave, now inside or on the edge of Mojave National Preserve / Castle Mountains landsc…
Johannesburg — Kern County, CA
Living ghost town on the Rand Mining District opposite Randsburg—once billed the “Queen City of the Rand” after 1890s gold strikes. Weathered false-front blo…
Keeler — Inyo County, CA
Cerro Gordo shipping town on the dry east shore of Owens Lake—smelter, soda works, and Carson & Colorado narrow-gauge terminus. Once a steamship and rail hub…
Leadfield — Death Valley, CA
One of the great mining frauds of Death Valley — promoter C.C. Julian sold thousands of worthless claims before the scheme collapsed in 1926. The town lasted…
Lila C — Inyo County, CA
Early Death Valley–Amargosa borax camp at the Lila C mine that spurred the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad spur from Death Valley Junction. Later operations shi…
Lookout City — Inyo County, CA
1880s silver camp of the Lookout Mining District on the Argus / Lookout Mountain side of Panamint Valley country west of Death Valley. Brief boom left stone …
Lundy — Mono County, CA
Defunct gold-camp community (formerly Mill Creek) at the west end of Lundy Lake in Lundy Canyon, northwest of Mono Lake. Grew after 1878 around the May Lundy…
Masonic — Mono County, CA
Gold camp about ten miles northeast of Bridgeport near the Nevada line, named by Freemason prospectors and also called Lorena. Upper, Middle, and Lower Town …
Millspaugh — Inyo County, CA
Mining camp in the Argus Range country west of Panamint Valley, associated with early twentieth-century prospects away from the better-known Ballarat and Dar…
Montgomery City — Mono County, CA
Short-lived 1860s silver camp on the west slope of the White Mountains east of Benton, organized after rich float discoveries and the Montgomery Mining Distr…
Ogilby — Imperial County, CA
Southern Pacific railroad siding and supply town (est. 1877) that served the Cargo Muchacho gold camps and the Imperial sand-dune Plank Road era. Buildings a…
Owenyo — Inyo County, CA
Abandoned Carson & Colorado / Southern Pacific narrow-gauge transfer townsite ~5 miles north of Lone Pine in the Owens Valley. Owenyo was the valley’s rail s…
Panamint City — Inyo County, CA
Silver-and-copper boom town in Surprise Canyon on the west slope of the Panamint Range (GNIS name Panamint). After 1872 discoveries the camp grew by 1874 to …
Picacho — Imperial County, CA
Colorado River gold camp turned remote California State Recreation Area on the Imperial–Arizona border. Late-1800s placer and hard-rock mining built a rivers…
Randsburg — Kern County, CA
Living Mojave Desert gold camp on Rand Mountain, founded after the 1895 strike and peaking near 3,500 residents by 1899. Rand Mining District is California H…
Reilly — Inyo County, CA
Panamint Valley mining camp south of the Ballarat approaches, short-lived and thinly built. A classic Death Valley–region ghost pin for named camp geography …
Saltdale — Kern County, CA
Salt-harvesting company town founded in 1914 on the shore of Koehn Dry Lake in the northern Mojave, northeast of California City near Garlock. A narrow-gauge…
Schwab — Death Valley, CA
Short-lived 1906–07 gold-camp townsite in Echo Canyon on the Funeral Mountains side of Death Valley National Park—named for steel magnate Charles M. Schwab’s…
Skidoo — Inyo County, CA
Death Valley gold camp at 5,600 ft in the Panamint Mountains, famous for a man being hanged twice — once alive, then again as a corpse for a late-arriving ph…
Swansea CA — Inyo County, CA
1870s Owens Lake port and silver-lead smelter town that processed Cerro Gordo ore barged across the lake. Remnants of the California Historical Landmark #752…
Tumco Historic Mine — Imperial County, CA
California Historical Landmark No. 182 gold camp in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains—formerly Gold Rock, then Hedges (peak ~3,000 residents 1890s), later Tumco—B…
Vanderbilt CA — San Bernardino County, CA
1890s New York Mountains gold camp founded after ore was struck near Vanderbilt Spring; briefly a multi-hundred-person tent-and-frame town served by the Neva…

Arizona (43)

Adamsville — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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…

Utah (41)

Alunite — Piute County, UT
World War I–era mining camp at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon about five miles south of Marysvale, Piute County. It was built to process alunite for potash a…
Black Rock (Millard) — Millard County, UT
Near-ghost railroad community in the Beaver Bottoms of southern Millard County, about twenty miles north of Milford, named for nearby dark rock formations. A…
Castle Gate — Carbon County, UT
Coal company town at the mouth of Price Canyon where the Denver & Rio Grande once threaded the Book Cliffs approaches. Remembered for the 1924 mine disaster …
Cisco — Grand County, UT
Cisco is a withered railroad and highway stop in Grand County’s open desert east of Moab. Once a water and crew point on the D&RGW and later a Route 6/50 ser…
Clifton — Tooele County, UT
Abandoned Clifton Mining District camp at the north end of the Deep Creek Mountains, predecessor to nearby Gold Hill. Gold discovery in the late 1850s–1860s …
Diamond — Juab County, UT
Early Tintic Mining District camp on Diamond Gulch, settled 1870 after quartz crystals were mistaken for diamonds. Grew to stores, saloons, a school, and rou…
Dividend — Utah County, UT
Tintic Mining District camp east of Eureka, a true ghost with assorted mill and residential ruins from silver-lead production. Field pin for district-road mi…
Dragon — Uintah County, UT
Gilsonite mining camp and former Uintah Railway terminus at the mouth of Dragon Canyon near the Colorado line in eastern Uintah County. Named for the Black D…
Eagle City — Garfield County, UT
Remote gold-camp ghost town in Bromide Basin on the western Henry Mountains. Settled around 1890 to serve the Bromide and Oro mines along Crescent Creek; bri…
Frisco — Beaver County, UT
Frisco was a violent 1870s–80s silver boomtown in Utah’s San Francisco Mountains, remembered for charcoal kilns, a cemetery, and mine ruins in Beaver County.…
Giles — Wayne County, UT
Mormon farming settlement on the Fremont River in Blue Valley, Wayne County, inhabited about 1883–1919 and named for Bishop Henry Giles. Fertile soils and a …
Gold Hill — Tooele County, UT
Remote west-desert mining town near the Deep Creek Mountains, established after 1870s discoveries and revived for copper, gold, arsenic, silver, lead, and tu…
Grafton — Washington County, UT
Grafton sits on the Virgin River south of Zion, one of Utah’s most photogenic ghost towns. Mormon settlers farmed here from the 1860s until floods and isolat…
Hebron — Washington County, UT
Pioneer ranching town on Shoal Creek in western Washington County (1862–1902), first called Shoal Creek then platted as Hebron. It supplied mining camps incl…
Iosepa — Tooele County, UT
Iosepa was a Hawaiian Latter-day Saint colony in Skull Valley, Tooele County (1889–1917). Families farmed the desert under harsh conditions before many retur…
Joy — Juab County, UT
BLM-listed mining ghost townsite in the Drum Mountains of the west desert, founded in the 1870s (Detroit Mining District). Field remains are sparse building …
Kelton — Box Elder County, UT
Kelton was a Central Pacific/railroad town on the north edge of the Great Salt Lake desert in Box Elder County. After the Lucin Cutoff bypassed the Promontor…
Kenilworth — Carbon County, UT
Coal-camp community in the Book Cliffs above Helper/Price, a semi-ghost with substantial original housing fabric from the Carbon County coal era. Field pin f…
Kimberly — Piute County, UT
High-elevation gold camp on Gold Mountain in the Tushar Mountains of northwest Piute County, roughly 8,970 feet. Boom years 1901–1908 centered on the Annie L…
Latuda — Carbon County, UT
Spring Canyon coal camp in Carbon County, opened after Francisco Latuda and Charles Picco secured coal land in 1917 and launched the Liberty mine under Liber…
Lucin — Box Elder County, UT
Abandoned Central Pacific / Lucin Cutoff railroad oasis on the west side of the Great Salt Lake desert. Foundations, a root cellar, and spring-fed ponds rema…
Lund — Iron County, UT
Remote Union Pacific railroad town on the Escalante Desert west of Cedar City, once a branch-line junction and supply point for the Iron County hinterland. T…
McCornick — Millard County, UT
Failed irrigation-colony town in Whiskey Creek Flat, Millard County, about eleven miles northwest of Holden. Promoted in 1919 by the Sevier River Land and Wa…
Mercur — Tooele County, UT
Hard-rock mining ghost town in the Oquirrh Mountains of Tooele County, noted as the site of the first successful commercial cyanide gold process in the Unite…
Modena — Iron County, UT
Living railroad ghost town on State Route 56 in far western Iron County near the Nevada line. Founded in 1899 as a Utah and Nevada Railway / Los Angeles and …
Newhouse — Beaver County, UT
Early-1900s company town built by financier Samuel Newhouse for the Cactus Mine on the west flank of the San Francisco Mountains. Stone walls, mill foundatio…
Old Irontown — Iron County, UT
Ruins of the 1868–1876 Mormon iron colony once called Iron City, founded as a second attempt to smelt ore from Iron Mountain after Cedar City’s furnace faile…
Osiris — Garfield County, UT
Abandoned agricultural settlement in Black Canyon on SR-22 south of Antimony. Field focus is the towering early-20th-century creamery/granary ruin and stone …
Paria — Kane County, UT
Pahreah/Paria was a Paria River Mormon farming settlement (1870–1929) repeatedly wrecked by floods, later a Hollywood western backdrop. The townsite cemetery…
Sego — Grand County, UT
Sego was a coal camp in a side canyon north of Thompson Springs, Grand County. Company housing, a tipple, and rail spurs served mines that fed steam locomoti…
Shauntie — Beaver County, UT
Short-lived 1870s silver camp in the Wah Wah / southern Beaver desert west of Milford country. A thin west-desert ghost pin for a named mining settlement tha…
Silver City — Juab County, UT
Tintic Mining District silver camp (est. 1869) at the mouth of Dragon Canyon on the west flank of the East Tintic Mountains. Townsite largely gone; smelter/m…
Silver Reef — Washington County, UT
Silver Reef is a rare silver-in-sandstone camp in Washington County, Utah, active mainly in the late 1870s. Miners chased ore in the Springdale Sandstone—an …
Sulphurdale — Beaver County, UT
Sulfur-mining company town south of Cove Fort (production era roughly 1883–1960s). Schoolhouse and a few structures remain beside active geothermal country; …
Terrace — Box Elder County, UT
Central Pacific Railroad division point established in 1869 on the First Transcontinental Railroad grade across the Great Salt Lake Desert in western Box Eld…
Thistle — Utah County, UT
Thistle became a modern ghost town overnight in April 1983 when a massive landslide dammed Spanish Fork River and flooded the railroad/highway community. Par…
Tucker — Utah County, UT
Railroad and construction camp in Spanish Fork Canyon that supported Denver & Rio Grande mountain work and later highway eras. Once a small canyon settlement…
Victor — Emery County, UT
Short-lived Castle Valley agricultural ghost town east of Elmo, settled about 1910 when alkaline floodwater ruined farming at nearby Desert Lake and families…
Widtsoe — Garfield County, UT
Failed dry-farming town in Johns Valley, Garfield County northeast of Bryce, occupied roughly 1908–1936 under successive names Adairville, Houston, and Winde…
Winter Quarters — Carbon County, UT
Abandoned Pleasant Valley coal camp above Scofield Reservoir, site of the May 1, 1900 Winter Quarters Mine disaster—still one of the deadliest underground co…
Woodside — Emery County, UT
Railroad and ranching settlement on the Price River and U.S. 6/191 in eastern Emery County, established in 1881 as Lower Crossing for Denver & Rio Grande Wes…

New Mexico (34)

Alhambra — Grant County, NM
Short-lived mining camp in the Burro Mountains country west of Silver City. A thin southwestern New Mexico ghost pin for a named camp that never grew into a …
Alma — Catron County, NM
Semi-ghost settlement on U.S. 180 in Catron County between Glenwood and Reserve. Laid out in the 1870s mining boom and later associated with the WS Ranch and…
Ancho — Lincoln County, NM
Railroad-era ghost town on the former El Paso & Northeastern line south of Corona. Gypsum shipping and a short-lived boom left a depot-era footprint; the Anc…
Brice — Otero County, NM
Abandoned Jarilla Mountains mining camp (also known historically as Jarilla) in the Orogrande mining district west of US 54. Renamed Brice about 1904 when th…
Carthage — Socorro County, NM
Coal mining company town south of Socorro that once supplied locomotive fuel on the Rio Grande corridor. When coal demand faded, Carthage emptied into founda…
Chloride NM — Sierra County, NM
1880s silver camp in Chloride Creek canyon west of Truth or Consequences, once home to thousands of miners and saloons along Wall Street. Today a quiet livin…
Cooney — Catron County, NM
Mineral Creek mining camp above Mogollon in the Mogollon Mountains, named for prospector James Cooney. Field pin for canyon mine works and camp remnants alon…
Cuervo — Guadalupe County, NM
Nearly abandoned Route 66 and railroad town on Interstate 40 east of Santa Rosa in Guadalupe County. Founded about 1901 as a ranch supply point and later hig…
Dawson — Colfax County, NM
Former Phelps Dodge company coal town in Vermejo River country northeast of Cimarron. It peaked near six thousand residents with coking ovens and full compan…
Elizabethtown — Colfax County, NM
New Mexico’s first incorporated town and first Colfax County seat, born of an 1866–69 gold rush on the Moreno Valley. At peak it may have held several thousa…
Fierro — Grant County, NM
Zinc- and copper-mining town in the Hanover–Fierro district north of Bayard, boom-era enough for a theater, store, and pool hall before a 1920s fire and late…
Glenrio — Quay County, NM
Route 66 border ghost town straddling the New Mexico–Texas line on a former Rock Island Railroad siding renamed Glenrio in 1908. Motels, cafes, and filling s…
Golden — Santa Fe County, NM
Historic gold-mining camp on the Turquoise Trail (NM 14) between Madrid and San Pedro/Cedar Crest, one of New Mexico’s earliest gold districts (placer boom i…
Hachita — Grant County, NM
Southern desert railroad and mining service town in the Playas Valley approaches, a thin Grant/Hidalgo borderland ghost for section-house and camp scatter. F…
Hagan — Sandoval County, NM
Coal company town in the Hagan Basin east of the Sandia–Ortiz country that briefly thrived on underground coal before the market collapsed. Foundations, tipp…
Hanover — Grant County, NM
Historic copper-mining settlement in the Central Mining District east of Bayard, still a sparsely occupied GNIS populated place with visible mill-era street …
Jicarilla — Lincoln County, NM
Jicarilla Mountains mining camp northeast of Carrizozo / Ancho country, a thin Lincoln County ghost with sparse store and school-era fabric. Field pin for di…
Kelly — Socorro County, NM
Silver–lead–zinc mining camp in the Magdalena Mountains south of Magdalena. After 1870s discoveries the district boomed; mill foundations, stone walls, and t…
Kingston — Sierra County, NM
Silver boom camp founded in 1882 on Middle Percha Creek in the Black Range foothills. Once among the largest towns in the Territory with banks, hotels, and m…
Lake Valley Historic Townsite — Sierra County, NM
BLM-managed silver ghost town that briefly held about 4,000 people after 1878 discoveries, including the famous Bridal Chamber ore body. The agency restored …
Malone — Grant County, NM
Historical mining camp in the southern Burro Mountains district. Another thin Grant County ghost for a named camp on desert mountain roads south of the Silve…
Marcia — Otero County, NM
Sacramento Mountains railroad-logging settlement (also called Camp Marcia) built for Alamogordo Lumber Company operations that fed the Cloud-Climbing / Alamo…
Mogollon — Catron County, NM
Late-1800s silver and gold boomtown tucked in Silver Creek Canyon on the edge of the Gila Wilderness. Once among the wildest camps in the Southwest (peak pop…
Newkirk — Guadalupe County, NM
Near-ghost Route 66 and Interstate 40 service strip in Guadalupe County with a 2020 population of eight. It once held multiple gas stations, cafes, cabins, a…
Orogrande — Otero County, NM
Semi-ghost mining settlement in the Jarilla Mountains and Tularosa Basin on U.S. 54 between El Paso and Alamogordo. Founded in 1905 as Jarilla Junction and r…
Pinos Altos — Grant County, NM
Grant County’s first county seat and one of southwestern New Mexico’s earliest gold camps (Spanish for “tall pines”), high in the Pinos Altos Mountains above…
Riley — Socorro County, NM
Rio Salada settlement north of Magdalena with adobe school, church, and cemetery remnants. Classic Socorro-county ghost for ranch-and-mining hinterland roads…
San Marcial — Socorro County, NM
Once Socorro County’s second-largest town, about 1,400 people by 1929, a Rio Grande farm and Santa Fe Railroad / Harvey House community south of Socorro. Cat…
Shakespeare — Hidalgo County, NM
Preserved Chihuahuan Desert mining and stage-stop townsite just south of Lordsburg. Originally Mexican Springs / Grant / Ralston, later Shakespeare; adobe an…
Steeplerock — Grant County, NM
Historical mining settlement near the New Mexico–Arizona line in the Steeple Rock district, associated with late-nineteenth-century gold and silver prospects…
Steins — Hidalgo County, NM
Railroad and quarry ghost town in Stein’s Pass of the Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County. Founded in 1880 on the Southern Pacific, it thrived on ballast ro…
Turquoise — Otero County, NM
Historic mining settlement name in the Jarilla Mountains of southern Otero County, gazetted as a populated place and tied to the long turquoise- and precious…
Twining — Taos County, NM
Red River drainage mining camp in the Sangre de Cristo high country, associated with early twentieth-century copper activity near the Twining site. Thin moun…
White Oaks — Lincoln County, NM
Gold-rush boomtown (1879–early 1900s) on the east side of the Jicarilla Mountains that once rivaled Lincoln as the county’s liveliest camp. When the railroad…