This is a partial list of ghost town

Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...

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Conditions

Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of buildings or civilization and have reverted back to empty land. Other sites are unpopulated but still have standing buildings. Still others may support full time residents, though usually far less than at their historical peak, while others may now be museums or historical sites.

For ease of reference, the sites listed have been placed into one of the following general categories.

Barren site

• Site is no longer in existence
• Site has been destroyed, covered with water, or reverted to empty land
• May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most

Neglected site

• Little more than rubble remains at the site
• Dilapidated, often roofless buildings remain at the site

Abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing, but all or almost all are abandoned
• No population, with the possible exception of a caretaker
• Site no longer in use, except for one or two buildings

Semi-abandoned site

• Buildings or houses still standing, but most are abandoned
• A few residents may remain

Historic site

• Buildings or houses still standing
• Site has been converted to a historical site, museum, or tourist attraction
• Still a busy community, but population is smaller than its peak years

List

• Baldy Town
• Blackdom
  Blackdom, New Mexico
  Blackdom is a ghost town in Chaves County, New Mexico, that was founded by African-American settlers in 1901 and abandoned in the mid-1920s.- Geography :...
  
  
• Bland
• Cabezon
• Carpenter
  Carpenter, Grant County, New Mexico
  Carpenter was a settlement in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It was located on the west slope of the Mimbres Mountains, but its exact location is not now known. The site was reported to be a small lead-mining camp established ca. 1882, and so named because many of the prospectors were...
  
  
• Chloride
• Cuchillo
• Clairmont
  Clairmont, New Mexico
  Clairmont is a ghost town located 19 miles northeast of Glenwood in Catron County, New Mexico, United States.-History:As early as 1822 the site is reported to have been a mining camp, surviving through the 1880s as a supply center for prospectors. Located near Copper Creek, today there are old log...
  
  
• Cloverdale
• Cooney
  Cooney, New Mexico
  Cooney is a ghost town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, east of Alma. Cooney was once home to gold and silver prospectors in the nearby Mogollon Mountains.-History:...
  
  
• Dawson
  Dawson, New Mexico
  Dawson is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States and was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923. Dawson is located about 17 miles northeast of Cimarron, New Mexico. Dawson was a coal mining company town founded in 1901 when rancher John Barkley Dawson...
  
  
• El Ojo Del Padre
• Elizabethtown
  Elizabethtown, New Mexico
  Elizabethtown is a small unincorporated community in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. It is located just off New Mexico State Road 38, between the communities of Eagle Nest and Red River. It is just east of the Carson National Forest...
  
  
• Hermosa
  Hermosa, New Mexico
  Hermosa is a ghost town in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It was founded in 1883 by miners and grew to a town that had its own literary society. In 1889, Hermosa was hit by a devastating flash flood and never recovered. All that remains today is a mercantile, a hotel, and a log post...
  
  
• Gage
  Gage, New Mexico
  Gage is a former town in western Luna County, New Mexico, United States. It is found on Interstate 10/U.S. Route 70 twenty miles west of Deming. As of 1930, the population was 102. For some time, it survived as a ghost town, but the ruins have now been razed. A truck stop is all that remains.-...
  
  
• Gobernador
• Gran Quivira (now part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
  Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
  The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is located in the U.S. state of New Mexico, near Mountainair. The main park visitor center is in Mountainair.-History:...
  
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• Kelly
• Lake Valley
• Lanark
  Lanark, New Mexico
  Lanark is a ghost town in Doña Ana County, New Mexico about 30 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas and close to Kilbourne Hole.-History:Lanark had a U.S. Post Office from 1905 until 1923....
  
  
• Mentmore  (still has post office and zip code
  ZIP Code
  ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
  
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• Mogollon
  Mogollon, New Mexico
  Mogollon, also called the Mogollon Historic District, is a former mining town located in the Mogollon Mountains in Catron County, New Mexico, in the United States. Located east of Glenwood and Alma, it was founded in the 1880s at the bottom of Silver Creek Canyon to support the gold and silver...
  
  
• Mowry City
  Mowry City, New Mexico
  Mowry City is a ghost town first in Dona Anna County, then Grant County and finally in Luna County, New Mexico about 25 miles north of Deming, New Mexico...
  
  
• Old Hachita
• Pinos Altos (High Pines); still has some people there, located near Silver City
  Silver City, New Mexico
  Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 10,545. It is the county seat of Grant County. The city is the home of Western New Mexico University.-History:...
  
  
• Pittsburg
  Pittsburg, New Mexico
  Pittsburg is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. In 1922 Ray Pittman and his brother Russell Pittman constructed and became proprietors of a grocery store located six miles northwest of Gladstone. During 1924 a Post Office was established in the community and was located in...
  
  
• Red Hill
  Red Hill, New Mexico
  Red Hill is a ghost town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, west of Quemado.-Red Hill volcanic field:Also known as the Quemado volcanic field, Red Hill is 24 kilometers east of the larger Springerville volcanic field and immediately south of the Zuni Salt Lake field...
  
  
• Santa Rita
  Santa Rita, New Mexico
  Santa Rita is a ghost town in Grant County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The site of El Chino copper mine, Santa Rita was located fifteen miles east of Silver City.-History:...
  
  
• Shakespeare
  Shakespeare, New Mexico
  Shakespeare, formerly known variously as Mexican Springs, Grant, and Ralston City, is a ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. It is currently part of a privately-owned ranch, sometimes open to tourists...
  
  
• Steins
  Steins, New Mexico
  Steins is a ghost town in Doubtful Canyon of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was originally called Stein's Pass after the nearby pass through the Peloncillo Mountains...
  
  
• Tyrone
  Tyrone, New Mexico
  Tyrone is a ghost town located in Grant County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.Tyrone was an elaborately planned community financed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, based on Mediterranean and European styles, designed by well-known architect Bertram Goodhue and...
  
  
• Vinegaroon (east of La Luz, Otero County
  La Luz, New Mexico
  La Luz is a census-designated place in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,615 at the 2000 census. It is located immediately north of Alamogordo and lies in the eastern edge of the Tularosa Basin and on the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains. Until 1848, La Luz...
  
  ; at the mouth of La Borcita)

See also

• American Old West
  American Old West
  The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...
  
  
• Arizona Territory
  Arizona Territory
  The Territory of Arizona was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state....
  
  
• Copper mining in Arizona
  Copper mining in Arizona
  -Jerome:Native Americans used copper minerals of the Verde district at modern-day Jerome as pigment to decorate skin and textiles. The first European to visit the area is thought to be Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo, who found silver at a location in central Arizona in 1583...
  
  
• History of Arizona
  History of Arizona
  The last Native Americans arrived in Arizona between 16,000 BC and 10,000 BC, while the history of Arizona as recorded by Europeans began when Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan, explored the area in 1539. Coronado's expedition entered the area in 1540–1542 during its search for Cíbola...
  
  
• Silver mining in Arizona
  Silver mining in Arizona
  Silver mining in Arizona was a powerful stimulus for exploration and prospecting in early Arizona. Cumulative silver production through 1981 totaled 490 million troy ounces . However, only about 10% of Arizona's silver production came from silver mining...
  
  
• Tombstone, Arizona
  Tombstone, Arizona
  Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the last wide-open frontier boomtowns in the American Old West. From about 1877 to 1890, the town's mines produced USD $40 to $85 million...