List of ghost towns in Oregon
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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Oregon
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Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
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- AndrewsAndrews, OregonAndrews is an unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States. It is located south of Steens Mountain and near the Alvord Desert....
- AntelopeAntelope, OregonAntelope is a city in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 46.-History:The Antelope Valley was probably named by members of Joseph Sherar's party who were packing supplies to mines in the John Day area. Sherar became known as the operator of a toll bridge...
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- AshwoodAshwood, OregonAshwood is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States, northeast of Madras. It is considered a ghost town.Ashwood was named for its proximity to Ash Butte, a butte with volcanic ash deposits on its sides, and to honor Whitfield T. Wood, who settled in the area in the...
- AuburnAuburn, OregonAuburn was an unincorporated community in rural Baker County, Oregon, United States, now considered a ghost town. Auburn lies off Oregon Route 7 southwest of Baker City and east of McEwen on the edge of the Blue Mountains....
- AustinAustin, OregonAustin is an unincorporated community, considered a ghost town, in Grant County, Oregon, United States. It is located north of Oregon Route 7, near the Middle Fork John Day River in the Malheur National Forest.-History:...
- BayoceanBayocean, OregonBayocean was a community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. Sometimes known as "the town that fell into the sea", it was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on Tillamook Spit, a small stretch of land that forms one wall of Tillamook Bay....
- Blitzen
- Bohemia City
- Boston (relocated to become SheddShedd, OregonShedd is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Oregon, United States on Oregon Route 99E.-History:In 1858, a community and gristmill was established about a mile and a half east of the present town of Shedd and called Boston, probably because one of the founders came from Boston,...
) - Boones Ferry (subsumed by WilsonvilleWilsonville, OregonWilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A portion of the northern section of the city is in Washington County. Originally founded as Boones Landing due to the Boones Ferry which crossed the Willamette River at the location, the community became Wilsonville in...
) - BourneBourne, OregonBourne is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States about seven miles north of Sumpter in the Blue Mountains. It lies on Cracker Creek and is within the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest...
- BoydBoyd, OregonBoyd was a town in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, disincorporated in 1955, and now vacant except for a few abandoned homes, weathered outbuildings, and a derelict wooden grain elevator surrounded by the wheat fields, which still produce the grain that used to fill it. The site of the former...
- Bridal VeilBridal Veil, OregonBridal Veil is a virtual ghost town located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. It was established in the 1880s during a logging boom by a logging company as it harvested timber on nearby Larch Mountain to be a company mill town around a sawmill. It had a close relationship with the...
- Buffalo
- BuncomBuncom, OregonBuncom is an abandoned mining town located at the confluence of the Little Applegate River and Sterling Creek in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It is approximately southwest of Medford...
- ButtevilleButteville, OregonButteville is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Butteville as a census-designated place . The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with...
- CascadiaCascadia, OregonCascadia is an unincorporated community that was established in 1892 on the South Santiam River, east of the current city of Sweet Home, in Linn County, Oregon, United States. Originally a stage stop on the Santiam Wagon Road, then a summer resort also known as Cascadia Mineral Springs, Cascadia...
- ChampoegChampoeg, OregonChampoeg is a former town in the U.S. state of Oregon. Now a ghost town, it was an important settlement in the Willamette Valley in the early 1840s. It is positioned halfway between Oregon City and Salem and the site of the first provisional government of the Oregon Country...
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- Connley
- CornucopiaCornucopia, OregonCornucopia is a ghost town of the gold mining boom of the 1880s in Eastern Oregon, United States. The name of the town was chosen since it meant "Horn of Plenty". Gold was discovered in Cornucopia in 1884. The town was platted in 1886. It is located east of Baker City high in the mountains of Pine...
- DannerDanner, OregonDanner is an unincorporated community located in Malheur County, Oregon, United States, near Jordan Valley.-History:The old Idaho-Oregon-Nevada highway ran through Danner, following the route of the Skinner Toll Road which opened the area for settlement in 1863.Danner is the location of the grave...
- EllendaleEllendale, OregonEllendale is a ghost town in Polk County, Oregon, United States, about two and a half miles west of Dallas. It was the first White settlement in present-day Polk County. The community's name changed over the years, with the first post office in Polk County being opened in this locality as "O'Neils...
- Fleetwood
- FloraFlora, OregonFlora is an unincorporated community in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. It is located about 35 miles north of Enterprise, just off Oregon Route 3, and is considered a ghost town. Its elevation is 4350 ft.-History:...
- FriendFriend, OregonFriend is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. Considered a ghost town, little remains of the community except the Friend Store, a one-room schoolhouse, and a cemetery....
- GalenaGalena, OregonGalena is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States, about 20 miles from Austin Junction in the Blue Mountains. It is on the Middle Fork John Day River on the border of the Wallowa–Whitman and Malheur National Forests...
- GoldenGolden, OregonGolden is an abandoned mining town located on Coyote Creek in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.-History:Coyote Creek was first settled by white people in the late 1840s when gold was discovered. However, most of the settlers left when gold was found in the nearby Salmon River in 1850. Soon,...
- GraniteGranite, OregonGranite is a city located in Grant County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 24, up from its population of 10 in 1990...
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- GreenhornGreenhorn, OregonGreenhorn is a small city in Baker and Grant Counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It straddles the Blue Mountain ridge, so that it is located in both Grant County and Baker County...
- HardmanHardman, OregonHardman is an incorporated March 2, 1904 historic community in Morrow County, Oregon, United States on Oregon Route 207 north of Rock Creek. It is considered a ghost town.The first settlers in the area were John F. Royse and his brother...
- Horse HeavenHorse Heaven, OregonHorse Heaven is a ghost town in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Oregon. The settlement, which had a post office from 1938 to 1946, is east of Madras and east of Ashwood....
- IdiotvilleIdiotville, OregonIdiotville is a ghost town located in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States, near the mouth of Idiot Creek on the Wilson River, on the route of Oregon Route 6. Idiotville's elevation is 1200 feet....
- JimtownJimtown, OregonJimtown is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. It is located about two miles northwest of Halfway, on Oregon Route 413....
- KernvilleKernville, OregonKernville is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It is located near the intersection of U.S. Route 101 and Oregon Route 229, where the Siletz River enters Siletz Bay. There are two communities, known as "old" and "new" Kernville, in close proximity. Old Kernville...
- KinzuaKinzua, OregonKinzua is a former company town and ghost town in Wheeler County, Oregon, United States that existed from 1927 to 1978. Kinzua lies directly east of Fossil and uses a Fossil mailing address....
- LatourellLatourell, OregonLatourell is an unincorporated community located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, on the Historic Columbia River Highway about eight miles east of Troutdale and 5.5 miles west of Multnomah Falls...
- LimeLime, OregonLime is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States, five miles north of Huntington on U.S. Route 30/Interstate 84. It is near the confluence of Marble Creek and the Burnt River on the Union Pacific Railroad. The Oregon Trail passes through Lime.Lime post office was...
- Loma Vista
- LonerockLonerock, OregonLonerock is a city in Gilliam County, Oregon, United States. The population was 24 at the 2000 census. -History:Lonerock was founded in 1881 as a service center for the surrounding ranches. It was named for an unusual, -high lone rock which still stands in the town near the old Methodist church...
- OrdnanceOrdnance, OregonOrdnance is a ghost town in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States, southwest of Hermiston on Interstate 84/U.S. Route 30, near the intersection with Interstate 82...
- OrodellOrodell, OregonOrodell, also known as Oro Dell, is an unincorporated historic locale in Union County, Oregon, United States, on the Grande Ronde River at the northwest edge of La Grande. It is considered a ghost town...
- OrtleyOrtley, OregonOrtley is a former town in Wasco County, Oregon, in the United States. It was originally developed by the Hood River Orchard & Land Company which filed a plat for the townsite in 1911, naming it for the Ortley, a variety of apple. The company sold town lots and small orchard parcels, and Ortley...
- PlacerPlacer, OregonPlacer is an unincorporated community in Josephine County, Oregon, United States on Grave Creek a few miles east of Interstate 5. Established during the local gold mining boom, it is considered a ghost town.-History:...
- RichmondRichmond, OregonRichmond is an unincorporated community in Wheeler County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Richmond lies on Richmond Road southeast of its intersection with Oregon Route 207 between Mitchell and Service Creek. The community had a post office from 1899 to 1952....
- ShanikoShaniko, OregonShaniko is a city located in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, on U.S. Route 97 and about eight miles north of Antelope. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 26—a virtual ghost town whose preservation is being spearheaded by investments from Robert B...
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- SpartaSparta, OregonSparta is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named for Sparta, Illinois by William H. Packwood, a prominent Oregon pioneer who visited the gold diggings at the Powder River there in 1871....
- SterlingvilleSterlingville, OregonSterlingville was a boomtown located on Sterling Creek in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, once home to the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon. It has since been abandoned and destroyed.-History:...
- SumpterSumpter, OregonSumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 171 at the 2000 census. Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders.- History :...
- SusanvilleSusanville, OregonSusanville is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States, in the Blue Mountains about two miles up Elk Creek from Galena. The place was started as a gold mining camp in 1862 or 1864 and is now considered a ghost town.-History:...
- ValsetzValsetz, OregonValsetz was an unincorporated community and timber company town in Polk County, Oregon, United States, west of Falls City in the Central Oregon Coast Range. It no longer exists.-History:...
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- WaldoWaldo, OregonWaldo is a ghost town located in Josephine County, Oregon, United States, about three miles from the California border. It was settled in 1852 as a gold mining camp called Sailor's Diggings....
- WhitneyWhitney, OregonWhitney is an unincorporated community, also considered a ghost town, located in Baker County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 7 southwest of Sumpter. It is on the North Fork Burnt River, near the Blue Mountains and Wallowa-Whitman National Forest....
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- ZenaZena, OregonZena is a former community approximately 10 miles northwest of Salem, Oregon, United States, in Polk County. The community was established in 1858 was originally called "Spring Valley". It was renamed "Zena" by D.J. Cooper and his brother, pioneers from Missouri...