List of ghost towns in Texas
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This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Texas
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Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
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Carlton, Texas Carlton is an unincorporated community located in Hamilton County in Central Texas. It lies in the northeastern part of the county and has an estimated population of 70.-History:... (Hamilton County) Carpenter, Texas Carpenter is a small unincorporated community in western Wilson County, Texas, United States. It lies between the towns of La Vernia and St. Hedwig on Farm to Market Road 1346. The community is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:... (Wilson County) Carta Valley, Texas Carta Valley is a small unincorporated community in southwestern Edwards County, Texas, United States, in the western part of the state.-Population and location:... (Edwards County) Center Point, Camp County, Texas Center Point is a ghost town settled in 1865 by freed slaves. It is located in Camp County in the U.S. state of Texas, southeast of Pittsburg at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2057 and County Road 4247. Center Point is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad... Chalk Mountain, Texas Chalk Mountain is a small unincorporated community in Erath County, Texas, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 67 near the Somervell County line, about 25 miles southwest of Glen Rose.-Bengal Kitten:... (Erath County) Chinati, Texas Chinati is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States.It is named after the surrounding Chinati Mountain Range. The word ´chinati´ derives from the Apache word ch'íná'itíh, which means gate or mountain pass.-External links:... (Presidio County) Clairemont, Texas Clairemont is a ghost town in and the former county seat of Kent County, Texas, United States. It is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 380 and State Highway 208, fourteen miles southwest of Jayton and forty-three miles east of Post in central Kent County... (Kent County) Click, Llano County, Texas Click is a ghost town in Llano County, Texas, on County Road 308, southeast of Llano and southwest of Kingsland. The community was named for settler Malachi Click. Many descendants of Malachi Click are buried in the Llano City Cemetery. Benjamin F. Lowe was appointed postmaster when Click got a... Comyn, Texas Comyn is an unincorporated community located in Comanche County in Central Texas. Comyn is located in the east-northeastern part of the county along Farm-to-Market 1496 and the Fort Worth and Western Railroad, about 3 miles south of the junction of Texas State Highway 6 and FM 1496.-History:The... (Comanche County) Concrete, Texas Concrete, Texas, USA was a town located in southwestern Guadalupe County alongside the present Farm Road 775, approximately two miles north of the town of LaVernia and between the communities of LaVernia and New Berlin.... (Wilson County) Crisp, Texas Crisp is a ghost town located in Ellis County in North Texas, United States. It was the birthplace of country music star Ernest Tubb. It is located 21 miles east of Waxahachie, Texas.... (Ellis County) Dalby Springs, Texas Dalby Springs is a small unincorporated town in Bowie County, Texas, United States, once noted for its red sulphur springs, but now a virtual ghost town. Dalby Springs was first settled around 1839 and became a town around 1856... (Bowie County) Darwin, Texas Darwin was a coal mining town near Laredo in northwestern Webb County, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1882 after coal was found near the area. It was named after David Darwin Davis, the Cannel Coal Company owner. In 1914, the town's population grew to 800 and the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass... (Webb County) Desdemona, Texas Desdemona is a former oil boomtown and virtual ghost town located in Eastland County east of Abilene in West Texas. The community is located on Texas State Highway 16 at Farm-to-Market Roads 8 and 2214, approximately twenty miles southeast of the county seat of Eastland and twenty miles west of... (Eastland County) Dillon, Texas Dillon was a town in Hopkins County, Texas, located four miles south of Saltillo. The town was named after E. F. Dillon, who started operating the post office in his store in 1903. The post office closed in 1906, and in the mid-1930's the town disappeared from highway maps.... (Hopkins County) Doole, Texas Doole is an unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 74 in 1990.... (Concho County) Doseido Colony, Texas Doseido Colony was a small historic settlement which was located in western Wilson County, Texas one mile north of FM 775, at the intersection of county roads 321 and 361.-History:... (Wilson County) Dryden, Texas Dryden is an unincorporated community in south central Terrell County, Texas, United States.-History:The community was founded in 1882 and named for Eugene E. Dryden, the chief engineer of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, which was building its tracks through Terrell County and... (Terrell County) Dumas, Texas Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States. The population was 13,747 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Moore County. Located approximately fifty miles north of Amarillo, the city is named for... Wood County |
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Girvin, Texas Girvin is an unincorporated community in Pecos County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 30 in 2000.... (Pecos County) Goshen, Walker County, Texas Goshen, sometimes called Hutcheson, is an unincorporated area in Walker County, Texas, United States.-References:*Kingston, Mike . "Town Names: Past and Present", Texas Almanac. Dallas: Dallas Morning News, 2000, cited in GNIS... (Walker County) Grapetown, Texas Grapetown is an unincorporated farming and ranching community south of Fredericksburg, situated on South Grape Creek in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on the old Pinta Trail. Grapetown is noted for being the site of the first annual Gillespie County Bundes Schützenfest... (Gillespie County) Grass Pond Colony, Texas Grass Pond Colony was located at the site of several large natural ponds which remain filled by water year-round due to natural springs, it is located in the northern part of Wilson County, Texas, U.S.A. about five miles south of Sutherland Springs.-History:... (Wilson County) Gruene, Texas Gruene is a former town in Comal County, Texas. Once a significant cotton-producing community along the Guadalupe River, the economy is now supported primarily by tourism... (Comal County) Hackberry, Texas Hackberry is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 544 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hackberry is located at... (Lavaca County) Hale City, Texas Hale City was a short-lived community in central Hale County, Texas, United States. It was located northwest of Hale Center, a city near Plainview, Texas.... (Hale County) Hedwigs Hill, Texas Hedwigs Hill, Texas is an unincorporated farming and ranching community, established in 1853 just off U.S. Highway 87, located south of Art in southern Mason County, Texas.-Establishment:... (Mason County) Helena, Texas Helena is a ghost town in Texas located approximately southeast of San Antonio in Karnes County. The seat of Karnes County from 1854 to 1894, Helena was once known as the self-proclaimed "toughest town on earth" in the mid-19th century... (Karnes County) Huff, Texas Huff is a former town in northeastern Archer County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.... (Archer County) |
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La Casa, Texas La Casa was a small community in southeast Stephens County, Texas, United States, around 1880. Today it is considered a ghost town.-External links:... (Stephens County) La Reunion (Dallas) La Réunion was a socialist utopian community formed in 1855 by French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists near the forks of the Trinity River in Texas, USA. The Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas is about three miles east of the colony site. The founders of the community were inspired by the utopian... (Dallas County) Lajitas, Texas Lajitas is an unincorporated community in Brewster County, Texas, United States, in proximity to the Big Bend National Park.-Government:For many years the mayor of Lajitas was Clay Henry III, a "beer-drinking" goat... (Brewster County) Langtry, Texas Langtry is an unincorporated community in Val Verde County, Texas, United States. The community is notable as the place where "Judge" Roy Bean, the "Law West of the Pecos", had his saloon and practiced a kind of law.-History:... (Val Verde County) Laurelia, Texas Laurelia was an unincorporated community in central Polk County, Texas, United States. The town was founded after Judge Claiborne Holshausen built a sawmill in 1880. The location grew into a town and was named for the laurel which dominatated the area. The mill remained the nucleus of the town,... (Polk County) Leesville, Texas Leesville is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population 150 in 2000.Leesville is located at... (Gonzales County) Lemonville, Texas Lemonville is a ghost town that was the site of the Lemon Lumber Company in northern Orange County, Texas, United States, in the southeastern part of the state. Sometimes referred to as Lemon, it is located north of Orange and just east of Mauriceville... (Orange County) Lobo, Texas Lobo is a ghost town in Culberson County, Texas, United States that was abandoned in 1991.-Geography:Lobo is located at between the Van Horn Mountains and Wylie Mountains. It is situated along U.S... (Culberson County) Lodi, Texas Lodi is an unincorporated community in northern Marion County, Texas, United States. Its elevation is 253 feet . Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75564. The only business in Lodi, Texas is Lodi Drilling & Service Company Inc.It owes its name to the Italian... (Wilson County) Lone Oak Community, Texas Lone Oak Community is a small Texas community located at the intersection of US 87 and Loop 1604 in eastern Bexar County, Texas, near the town of St. Hedwig.-History:... (Bexar County) Los Ojuelos, Texas Los Ojuelos is a ghost town near Mirando City in the southeastern part of Webb County, Texas, United States. Before its establishment, Indians camped near the only dependable water source in the semiarid area. The local springs attracted Eugenio Gutiérrez in 1810 and attempted to settle in the... (Webb County) Loyal Valley, Texas Loyal Valley is an unincorporated farming and ranching community, established in 1858, and is north of Cherry Spring in the southeastern corner of Mason County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The community is located near Cold Spring Creek, which runs east for to its mouth on Marschall Creek in... (Mason County) Lytton Springs, Texas Lytton Springs is an unincorporated community in northeastern Caldwell County, Texas, United States. Located along Farm-to-Market Road 1854, it lies approximately northeast of Lockhart, the county seat of Caldwell County.-References:... (Caldwell County) Luckenbach, Texas Luckenbach is an unincorporated community thirteen miles from Fredericksburg in southeastern Gillespie County, Texas, United States, part of the Texas Hill Country. It consists of between South Grape Creek and Snail Creek, just south of U.S. Highway 290 on the south side of Farm to Market Road... (Gillespie County) |
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Narcisso, Texas Narcisso is an abandoned town in southwest Cottle County, Texas, United States.-External links:... (Cottle County) Newport, Texas Newport is on Farm to Market Road 1288 and SH 59 southeast of Henrietta in far southeastern Clay County, Texas. Farm to Market Road 2127 also passes just south of town. Its population is estimated at 70.-History:... (Clay County) New Sweden, Texas New Sweden is a small unincorporated community in northeast Travis County, Texas, United States.The community was established in 1873 and was known then as Knight's Ranch. The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was established on February 23,1876 and initially carried the name Manor until... (Travis County) Oakland, Colorado County, Texas Oakland is an unincorporated community in Colorado County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 80 in 2000. It is located southwest of the junction of Farm Roads 532 and 2144, approximately eight miles south of Weimar.Although it is... (Colorado County) Orla, Texas Orla is a ghost town in Reeves County, Texas, United States. It lies about 38 miles north of Pecos. It is believed to have two residents and has its own post office, located on U.S. Route 285. The post office was established 26 December 1906 with Joshua D. McAdams as first postmaster.... (Reeves County) |
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Pringle, Texas Pringle is an unincorporated community in northern Hutchinson County, Texas, United States.The Pringle-Morse Consolidated Independent School District serves area students.-External links:... (Hutchinson County) Pyote, Texas Pyote is a town in Ward County, Texas, United States. The population was 131 at the 2000 census.-History:Pyote began as a small town. Its fortunes rose with oil, but its population decreased when the railroad was built away from the town. At one time Pyote had 3,500 residents... (Ward County) Quihi, Texas Quihi is a ghost town in Medina County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Located north of Hondo, it sits at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2676 and Quihi Creek. In 1936, Quihi received Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Number 5537 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of its... (Medina County) Rath City, Texas Rath City was a frontier town which existed for less than five years and is presently a ghost town. The town was located on the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River fourteen miles northwest of Hamlin in southern Stonewall County, Texas, United States.-History:... (Stonewall County) Red River Station, Texas Red River Station once existed as a small community south of the Red River at Salt Creek in north western Montague County, Texas, United States.-History:... (Montague County) Rheingold School, Gillespie County, Texas Rheingold School is located at 334 Rheingold School Road, in Gillespie County, Texas.In 1949, the school was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District. The building is now used as a community center... (Gillespie County) Rock Island, Washington County, Texas Rock Island was a settlement located on the Brazos River in Texas, United States, south of Graball, and northwest of Hempstead. The town once had a post office, church, and a highly acclaimed boys academy.-External links:*... Roosevelt, Kimble County, Texas Roosevelt is a ghost town located 16 miles west of Junction on Farm to Market Road 291 in Kimble County, Texas, United States. In 1997, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 4343 was designated to acknowledge the community of Roosevelt, Texas.-History:... Ruidosa, Texas Ruidosa is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, United States.-Education:Ruidosa is zoned to schools in the Presidio Independent School District. In 2000 the population was 43-External links:... (Presidio County) |
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Tascosa, Texas Tascosa was once the capital of ten counties and a rival of Dodge City, but it is now a Ghost Town. It is located in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle.... (Oldham County) Tee Pee City, Texas Tee Pee City is a ghost town in eastern Motley County, Texas, United States.This ghost town is located "near the confluence of Tee Pee Creek and the Middle Pease River in eastern Motley County, began in 1875 as a trading post serving buffalo hunters and surveying parties... (Motley County) Tehuacana, Texas Tehuacana is a town in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 307 at the 2000 census. From 1869 until 1902, the town was home to Trinity University.-Geography:Tehuacana is located at .... (Limestone County) Telegraph, Texas Telegraph is a ghost town on Texas State Highway 377, thirteen miles 13 miles southwest of Junction, in Kimble County, Texas, United States.-History:... (Kimble County) Telico, Texas Telico is an unincorporated community in east central Ellis County, Texas, United States.The area that became Telico was settled before 1856... (Ellis County) Terlingua, Texas Terlingua is a mining district in southwestern Brewster County, Texas, United States. It is located near the Rio Grande and the Texas villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas,as well as the Mexican village of Santa Elena. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in... (Brewster County) Texla, Texas Texla is a ghost town in northern Orange County, Texas, United States, in the southeastern part of the state. It is located northwest of Orange, just west of Mauriceville. The site was originally called Bruce, after the postmaster Charles G. Bruce when the office opened in 1905... (Orange County) Texon, Texas Texon is a small unincorporated town in Reagan County, Texas, United States, in the western part of the state. The town is noted for its boom as an oil town and subsequent near abandonment.-Population and location:... (Reagan County) The Grove, Texas The Grove is an unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is located some sixteen miles southeast of Gatesville, Texas in the eastern portion of the county.The Grove is located on Texas State Highway 36.... (Coryell County) Thurber, Texas Thurber is a coal-mining ghost town in Erath County, Texas, United States, located 75 miles west of Fort Worth. It currently has an overall population of about twenty five.-History:... (Erath County) Tokio, Texas Tokio is an unincorporated community in Terry County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 24 in 2000.-External links:... (Terry County) Toyah, Texas Toyah is a town in Reeves County, Texas, United States. The population was 100 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Toyah is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.... (Reeves County) Toyahvale, Texas Toyahvale is an unincorporated community in southern Reeves County, Texas, United States. It lies along State Highway 17 and FM 3078 south of the city of Pecos, the county seat of Reeves County. Despite its similar name, Toyahvale is distinct from the town of Toyah, which lies 25 miles to... (Reeves County) Tuleta, Texas Tuleta is a census-designated place in Bee County, Texas, United States. The population was 292 at the 2000 census.Tuleta is on State Highway 181 twelve miles north of Beeville in north Bee County. It was founded by Peter Unzicker, a Mennonite minister, who brought a colony of Mennonites from... (Bee County) |
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Wild Cat Bluff, Texas Wild Cat Bluff was a settlement in northwestern Anderson County, Texas, United States.-References:*... (Anderson County) Williams Ranch, Texas Williams Ranch is the oldest settlement in Mills County, Texas, with the oldest known cemetery in the vicinity dating back to the mid-19th century. The location is about south of Mullin, and northwest of Goldthwaite, the county seat. When originally settled, Williams Ranch was located in the far... (Mills) Wintergreen, Texas Wintergreen is a ghost town in northeastern Karnes County, Texas, United States. It once stood at the intersection of the Victoria-San Antonio Roads and the lower Helena-Gonzales Roads. Wintergreen appeared on maps from 1858 to 1868, including an 1865 Civil War map.-Notes:... (Karnes) Zeirath, Texas Zeirath is a ghost town in eastern Jasper County, Texas, United States. The town was located along the railroad as many other Texas ghost towns once were.... (Jasper) Zorn, Texas Zorn, Texas is located in Northern Guadalupe County, Texas on US Highway 123 approximately thirteen miles north of the town of Seguin, Texas.-History:... (Guadalupe County) Zodiac, Texas Zodiac is a vanished Mormon settlement established in 1847 on the Pedernales River, located southeast of Fredericksburg, in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was the first Mormon colony established by Lyman Wight in Texas. The second settlement was Mormon Mill, Burnet County, Texas... (Gillespie) Zuehl, Texas Zuehl is a census-designated place in southwestern Guadalupe County, Texas, United States. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located on Cibolo Creek, it lies 14 miles southwest of Seguin. The population was 346 at the 2000 census. Once known as Perryman's Crossing, it was... (Guadalupe County) |