List of ghost towns in Wyoming
This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wyoming.
Classification
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Barren site
- Sites no longer in existence
- Sites that have been destroyed
- Covered with water
- Reverted to pasture
- May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most
Neglected site
- Only rubble left
- Roofless building ruins
- Buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless
Abandoned site
- Building or houses still standing
- Buildings and houses all abandoned
- No population, except caretaker
- Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store
Semi abandoned site
- Building or houses still standing
- Buildings and houses largely abandoned
- few residents
- many abandoned buildings
- Small population
Historic community
- Building or houses still standing
- Still a busy community
- Smaller than its boom years
- Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less.
Table
Name | Other names | County | Location | Settled | Abandoned | Current status | Remarks |
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Alva | Crook County | Semi-abandoned | |||||
Antelope Flats | 1893 | 1912 | Neglected | [1] | |||
Atlantic City | Fremont County | 1868 | Semi-abandoned | [2] | |||
Baker Town | Crook County | East of Aladdin[3] | |||||
Barrett Town | Crook County | West of Aladdin[3] | |||||
Battle | Carbon County | July 3, 1778 | [4] | ||||
Bear River City | Beartown[3] | Uinta County | Approximately 10 miles southeast of Evanston, WY | 1867[3] | |||
Bear Rock | 1906 | ||||||
Benton | July to September 1868 | [2] | |||||
Bessemer | 1888 | ||||||
Bosler | Albany County | 1900[1] | |||||
Bryan | Sweetwater County | September 1868 | |||||
Buckhorn | 1900 | ||||||
Buford | Albany County | ||||||
Cambria | Weston County | 1889 | 1928 | ||||
Canyon Springs | [5] | ||||||
Carbon | Carbon County | 1868[3] | Abandoned | ||||
Carter | Uinta County | December 27, 1867 | |||||
Clifton | 1907 | ||||||
Cumberland | Lincoln County | 1900 | |||||
Eadsville | 1891[4] | ||||||
Empire | Goshen County[6] | 1908 | |||||
Forest City | |||||||
Fort Laramie | Goshen County | 1834 | Historic | [7] | |||
Fort Steele | [2] | ||||||
Gebo | Hot Springs County | ||||||
Hecla | Laramie County | ||||||
Horton | |||||||
Jay Em | Goshen County | [1] | |||||
Jeffrey City | Fremont County | ||||||
Jireh | A planned college town that never took off.[1] | ||||||
Kane | Big Horn County | ||||||
Kirwin | Park County | Historic[4] | |||||
Linwood | Daggett County | On the Wyoming-Utah state line | |||||
Lewiston | [2] | ||||||
Lost Springs | Converse County | ||||||
Manhattan | |||||||
Mineral Hill | Crook County | 1930s[3] | |||||
Miner's Delight | Fremont County | 1867[1] | |||||
Moskee | [2] | ||||||
Pacific Springs | [2] | ||||||
Piedmont | Byrne[4] | Uinta County | |||||
Point of Rocks | Sweetwater County | [1] | |||||
Rocky Ford | |||||||
Sage | Lincoln County | ||||||
South Pass City | Fremont County | Semi-abandoned | |||||
Sherman | Albany County | ||||||
Spencer | |||||||
Sunrise | Platte County | ||||||
Table Rock | Sweetwater County | Late 1970s | 2010 | Barren | |||
Tubb Town | Weston County | ||||||
Upton | Weston County | Historic[1] | |||||
Van Tassell | Niobrara County | ||||||
Walcott | Carbon County | [2] | |||||
Welcome | Crook County | Nearby to Mineral Hill Wyoming[3] | |||||
Whoop-Up | [5] |
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e f g "The Truly Grim Reality Of 11 Deserted Ghost Towns In Wyoming". OnlyInYourState®. June 14, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g Weis, Norman D. (1971). Ghost Towns of the Northwest. Caldwell, Idaho, USA: Caxton Press. ISBN 0-87004-358-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g Miller, Donald (1977). Ghost Towns of Wyoming. Pruett. ISBN 0871085119.
- ^ a b c d "7 Wyoming Ghost Towns You Need to Explore". travelwyoming.com.
- ^ a b Hafnor, John. Black Hills Believables: Strange-but-true Tales of the Old West. Fort Collins, Colorado: Lone Pine Productions, 2002. 54. Web. 8 Aug. 2013.
- ^ "Empire Wyoming (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
- ^ Lee, Mariska (October 25, 2020). "5 Best Ghost Towns in Wyoming". Van Life Wanderer. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
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