Ghost Towns, New Mexico
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- Alhambra — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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 — Ghost Town · 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…