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Take a stroll through time and visit our ghost towns through vintage and contemporary photos, memories and stories contributed by descendants, residents, former residents, and information from fellow travelers.

West Texas Ghost Towns Travel Guide
TOWN	COUNTY	Description
Acala	Hudspeth	Near Sierra Blanca
Adobes	Presidio	A borderland ghost town
Arno	Reeves	Population 0
Badger	Ector	Close to Odessa
Bakersfield	Pecos	Born with the oil boom
Best	Reagan	Once an oil boom town
Boquillas	Brewster	On the Rio Grande
Candelaria	Presidio	A ghost town on the Rio Grande
Casa Piedra	Presidio	Nothing in the middle of Nowhere
Castolon 3-27-08	Brewster	On the Rio Grande in Big Bend N Park
Cedar Station	Terrell	Not in the Handbook of Texas
Chispa	Jeff Davis	A ghost town south of Chispa Mountain
Devil’s River 11-22-08	Val Verde	Under Lake Amistad
Dixieland	Reeves	Close to Pecos
Dryden	Terrell	Once an important cattle-shipping point
Eureka	Crockett	Lost county seat to Ozona
Finlay	Hudspeth	Population 0
Frankel City	Andrew	Close to Odessa
Frijole	Culberson	North of Van Horn
Girvin	Pecos	Ghost town with its own social club
Judkins	Ector	Population 0
Juno	Val Verde	Just west of the Devil's River
Hovey	Brewster	Population 0
Lajitas 11-26-07	Brewster	Ghost town with a resort - on the Rio Grande
Langtry	Val Verde	The Ghost Town with a Visitor's Center
Lees	Glasscock	Not on the state map
Lindsey City	Presidio	In Big Bend National Park
Lobo 1-6-07	Culberson	The ghost town with a swimming pool
Longfellow	Pecos	No daffodils, but lots of cacti
Mariscal Mine	Brewster	A National Register Historic District
Mentone	Loving	"If "Less is More" then Even Less is Even More."
Orla 3-27-08	Reeves	Remains an equipment shipping point
Pandale	Val Verde	(Just) East of the Pecos
Penwell 9-23-07	Ector	Once an oil boom town
Plata	Presidio	Ruins
Porterville	Loving	Absorbed by greater Mentone
Pumpville	Val Verde	Between Langtry and Dryden
Pyote	Ward	Site of WWII Air Force Station
Royalty	Ward	Once an oil boom town
Ruidosa	Presidio	On the Rio Grande
Salt Flat	Hudspeth	The baren landscape that sparked a feud
Shafter	Presidio	Former silver mine in West Texas
Sherwood	Irion	One of Texas' best former courthouses
Shumla 4-10-08	Val Verde	Once a railroad track construction camp
Stiles	Reagan	Ghost Courthouse
Study Butte	Brewster	5 miles east of Terlingua
Terlingua	Brewster	The highest visitor count of Texas ghost towns
Texon	Reagan	Their oil built UT
Theodore	Winkler	Near Wink. Population 0
Tinaja 7-6-07	Presidio	Built by KCM&O Railroad as a station
Toyah 9-1-08	Reeves	Ghost town with a "suburb"
Tulsa 2-25-08	Winkler	Near Wink. Population 0
White Spur	El Paso	Absorbed by El Paso

See also
Central Texas Ghost Towns
East Texas Ghost Towns | South Texas Ghost Towns
Hill Country Ghost Towns | Gulf Coast Ghost Towns
West Texas Ghost Towns | Texas Panhandle Ghost Towns
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Subject: West Texas
I happened to stumble across your web site today, and was truely impressed. I grew up in west Texas (Val Verde Co, and Presidio Co), and know that there is not much there for the "passer-by". Just wanted to say thank you for helping to let others know that there is more to Texas than meets the eye. - Deena Smith

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