This is a list of lists of ghost towns in the UnitedStates by state. Unlocking the Past by Madeline DeJournett and Elfreda Cox (May 2007) ghosttowns in Stoddard County, Missouri.
What’s left today are a handful of houses, empty streets, and eerie silence. If you visit, you’ll find the old grid of roads still laid out, but the homes, shops, and churches are long gone. Only a few holdouts refused to leave, and they stayed until their deaths.
Where are America’s ghost towns, which state has the most, and how do they look today? Explore these desolate places and see how nearly 4,000 ghost towns are spread across America.
These abandonedtowns are the stuff of nightmares. Once thriving communities, now nothing more than hollow echoes of forgotten lives. The houses are empty, the streets are silent, but the stories? They’re still waiting to be uncovered.
Across America, over 3,800 forgotten towns stand frozen in time, abandoned by industries and residents who sought better futures. You’ll find these time capsules scattered from Rust Belt factories to Western mining camps, their stories etched in crumbling infrastructure and empty storefronts.
Check out the most eerily abandoned, and freakishly deserted, formerly thriving ghost towns across the country.