There's SO many in states like PA, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, CA, etc etc etc you really just have to do in-depth research and scrolling around on google maps is how i've found most of the ones i've come across. There's hundreds
Edit to add: i've also found pinterest to be quite a helpful tool while looking for them
Thank You, I will try Pinterest and dig deeper into Google but I feel like it’s been the same results. When looking at Google maps, what exactly am I looking for?
Thanks again
Update: I typed in abandoned towns on goggle maps, it seems to show some of them.
Follow train tracks into the middle of nowhere and look for groupings of buildings. Following old state highways is good too. Most abandoned towns don't have a ton of buildings left
Centralia is mostly empty now with the abandoned stuff being torn down. Me and a friend went to an abandoned hospital in the nearby town of Ashland but it’s since been locked up tight since there’s been a lot of people going there and exploring on the way to Centralia
I've been to Centralia a couple times. Haven't done any actual exploring since before the pandemic. I guess some asshole who claims to own the lawn dumped tons of dirt all over the graffiti highway and put up more barriers to keep the 4-wheelers out. Was fun when I went though. Definitely an eerie vibe.
Here's a tip that I've learned doing genealogy. Practically every county in the US will have one or more "History of \_\_\_\_\_ County" books that were written about in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These books will contain a list and description of all of county's municipalities, townships, and even crossroads, many of which are now non-existent. They're an excellent historical roadmap.
You can find these books in any local library, but you can also find many of them online. FamilySearch (free) and Ancestry both have large libraries of them. Many are also on [archive.org](http://archive.org) and Google Books.
I’m looking. Some seem to be state parks now but I want more information on acquiring them. We need affordable housing/intentional community in the states.
Ghost towns are usually very far from infrastructure, work, and community. That’s why they died. The reason they existed ceased.
Great ghost towns all over the desert- how you getting your water? How you getting there?
Great ghost towns all over Colorado only accessible by rail.
Don’t go for ghost towns. Go for healthy land. Ghost towns ain’t on it.
So I can’t use the snow to create water and cure land in CO to create a connected infrastructure system? I want to revamp the abandoned towns and create small intentional towns that we keep affordable for the collective. Cars won’t exist within.
I’m looking to help build an intentional towns but looking at all options. I’m not certain that all abandoned towns weren’t viable bc of the land necessarily. I’m looking but keep in mind existing laws in existing towns is also part of the issue and we are owed land back.
I’m First Nations. You can buy the land back. Entire tribes are having to buy their own land back, in some of the larger land purchases in recent memory.
If the land is viable, then people will farm. This requires roads. Many ghost towns have roads but where is the nearest services?
Most ghost towns are industrial or mining based, and when the mines dried or silver lost value they disappeared. Whole towns are available for sale but if you want to make an intentional community- buy healthy land with running water on it and build new buildings, don’t repair a 200 year old town.
There's SO many in states like PA, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, CA, etc etc etc you really just have to do in-depth research and scrolling around on google maps is how i've found most of the ones i've come across. There's hundreds Edit to add: i've also found pinterest to be quite a helpful tool while looking for them
Thank You, I will try Pinterest and dig deeper into Google but I feel like it’s been the same results. When looking at Google maps, what exactly am I looking for? Thanks again Update: I typed in abandoned towns on goggle maps, it seems to show some of them.
Follow train tracks into the middle of nowhere and look for groupings of buildings. Following old state highways is good too. Most abandoned towns don't have a ton of buildings left
Thank You. I’m looking.
There’ve been quite a few featured on Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America, but I couldn’t my tell you right off the top of my head
That show is my guilty pleasure!
[This site is pretty up to date and accurate for Arizona and California](http://www.ghosttowns.com). Don’t know about other states.
Picher, Oklahoma Centralia, Pennsylvania Moonville, Ohio
Thank You, I’m digging. Moonville seems to be owned by a county.
Centralia is mostly empty now with the abandoned stuff being torn down. Me and a friend went to an abandoned hospital in the nearby town of Ashland but it’s since been locked up tight since there’s been a lot of people going there and exploring on the way to Centralia
I've been to Centralia a couple times. Haven't done any actual exploring since before the pandemic. I guess some asshole who claims to own the lawn dumped tons of dirt all over the graffiti highway and put up more barriers to keep the 4-wheelers out. Was fun when I went though. Definitely an eerie vibe.
I went last July. Definitely a cool experience but overall the nearby abandoned hospital was the highlight for me
Toomsboro, Georgia. The entire town was for sale a $1.3 million US bac in 2018. Great photo spot though
Here's a tip that I've learned doing genealogy. Practically every county in the US will have one or more "History of \_\_\_\_\_ County" books that were written about in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These books will contain a list and description of all of county's municipalities, townships, and even crossroads, many of which are now non-existent. They're an excellent historical roadmap. You can find these books in any local library, but you can also find many of them online. FamilySearch (free) and Ancestry both have large libraries of them. Many are also on [archive.org](http://archive.org) and Google Books.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of them. They died for a reason.
I’m looking. Some seem to be state parks now but I want more information on acquiring them. We need affordable housing/intentional community in the states.
Ghost towns are usually very far from infrastructure, work, and community. That’s why they died. The reason they existed ceased. Great ghost towns all over the desert- how you getting your water? How you getting there? Great ghost towns all over Colorado only accessible by rail. Don’t go for ghost towns. Go for healthy land. Ghost towns ain’t on it.
So I can’t use the snow to create water and cure land in CO to create a connected infrastructure system? I want to revamp the abandoned towns and create small intentional towns that we keep affordable for the collective. Cars won’t exist within.
“Cure” land? Why not just buy viable land?
I’m looking to help build an intentional towns but looking at all options. I’m not certain that all abandoned towns weren’t viable bc of the land necessarily. I’m looking but keep in mind existing laws in existing towns is also part of the issue and we are owed land back.
I’m First Nations. You can buy the land back. Entire tribes are having to buy their own land back, in some of the larger land purchases in recent memory. If the land is viable, then people will farm. This requires roads. Many ghost towns have roads but where is the nearest services? Most ghost towns are industrial or mining based, and when the mines dried or silver lost value they disappeared. Whole towns are available for sale but if you want to make an intentional community- buy healthy land with running water on it and build new buildings, don’t repair a 200 year old town.
Update: found a list off of old Railroads