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TEXAS GHOST TOWNS

An alphabetical listing of Texas' forgotten towns
for the curious (and somewhat adventurous) traveler.

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 fellow travelers.

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A Acala Acme Acol Acuff Adobe Walls Adobes Afton Afton Aguilares Albert 11-15-07 Albuquerque Alcino Alexander Alligator Allred Alton 11-12-07 Ammannsville Amphion Antioch Arno Athens Atlee Atoy Ayr B Baby Head 12-23-07 Babylon Back City Badger Bagdad Bakersfield 12-23-07 Bautista Baxter Beattie Belcherville 4-4-07 Belle Plain Ben Ficklin Benoit Berg's Mill 2-14-08 Best Bevilport Big Lump Bippus Birdston Black Ankle Blue Gap Bluffton Bogus Springs Bois D'Arc Boise Bomarton Bonami Boonville Boquillas Boz Bradshaw 3-31-07 Brazos Point 4-9-07 Bridgetown Bronco Brooklyn Bryant Station 12-1-06 Buena Vista Shelby Co 7-21-08 Buena Vista Buffalo Bug Tussle Bulcher Bullock 10-14-07 Bunker Hill Burkett Burning Bush 10-1-08 Bushdale Byspot C Caddo Calf Creek Callahan City Calliham Camp Verde Candelaria Carlton Carter Casa Piedra Castolon 3-26-07 Catarina Catfish Cedar Station Center City Center Point Centerville Chalk Mountain Champion 12-28-07 Cherry Spring Cheapside Cheeseland 12-1-06 China Grove 8-26-07 Chispa Clarkson Clairemont Clara Cleo Click Climax Codman Coffeeville Coke Coldwater Coletoville 6-23-07 Cologne Colorado City Comet Concepcion Concord Concrete Content 6-13-07 Conway Copano 7-1-07 Copperas 1-8-08 Corn Hill Cottage Hill Cox's Point 6-8-07 Crabapple Crews Cuba Custer City Cuthbert Cuyler D Damsite Danevang Democrat 2-14-08 Denmark Desdemona Devil�s River 11-22-08 Dew Dewville Dexter 2-21-08 Dialville Diddy Wa Diddy Dido Dillon Dinero Direct Divot 3-10-08 Dixieland Doan's Crossing Donahoe Doole Dozier Drasco 6-21-07 Draw Drusilla Dryden Dubina Dundee E Earle�s Chapel East Sweden 1-6-08 Echo Eckert Eldridge Electric City Eliasville Eliza Emma 8-12-07 Emporia 3-29-07 Eskota Eureka Exile F Fairland Fairmount 8-27-07 Fastrill Finis Finlay Fly Fly Gap Fort Griffin 3-3-08 Fort Houston Fort McKavett Fort Phantom Hill 11-29-07 Fostoria 8-1-07 Fowlerton Frankel City Friendship Frijole Frio Town Fry	G Gasoline Gay Hill Geneva Gent Gewhitt Gibtown Girvin Glazier Glen 6-28-07 Glenrio Glory Goforth 11-30-07 Goodnight Goodwill 9-7-07 Gooseneck Grapetown Gray Mule Gruene 11-16-07 Gulf Prairie Gould 10-30-07 Gussettville H Hackberry Hagerman 1-13-08 Hatchel Hebron Helena Hemming High Hill Hilda Holcomb Store Hoover's Valley 9-15-08 Hope 4-24-08 Hopewell Hovey Hubbard I Iatan 1-18-08 Illinois Bend Independence Indianola Ireland Iron Bridge Ironosa Isom J Java Jeffry Jellico Jericho Jermyn Jimkurn Jonesboro Jonesville 7-21-08 Judkins Juliff Juno Justiceburg K Kelsey Kerrick Key Kiam Kimball Kinckerbocker Kiomatia Kirtley 7-1-07 Kohrville Kopernic Shores Kovar L La Bahia La Casa 8-1-08 La Fruta La Lomita Lagarto Lajitas 11-26-07 Lake Victor Lake View 3-29-07 Laketon Lamar Landergin Langtry Lanham 4-14-08 Larissa Lees Lesley Lime City 11-24-07 Lindsey City Lindsey Springs Linnville Lipscomb Little Hope Lobo 1-6-08 Lodi London Lone Grove Lone Star Lone Wolf 6-19-08 Longfellow Loveless Loyal Valley Luckenbach Luxello 3-13-08 M Mackay Manda Manhattan Manila Marco Marie Masterson Maverick McDuff McLean POW Camp Mecca Medicine Mound Mentone Mesquite Middle Water Middlewell Mingus Mixon Mobeetie Moline Montell 6-24-07 Morris Ranch Mozelle Mustang 10-6-08 Mutt and Jeff N Nameless Nash New Birmingham New Moore Newgulf Nickel Nix Nockenut 10-28-07 Norse Norton Noxville Nubia O Oak Hill Odds Odell 6-1-07 Ogden Ohio Old D'Hanis Old Moulton Old Waverly 10-22-08 Olfen Olga Olive Opdyke Oriana 2-16-07 Orla 3-27-08 Osage 10-24-07 Otis Chalk Ottine Oxford Oxien	P Pancake 11-16-07 Pandale Panna Maria Pear Valley Penwell Perico Perry Petersburg Phillips Pickens Picketville Pine Town Pleasant Hill 4-1-07 Plata Podo Poe Prairie Porterville Pyote Presley Praha Providence Pumphrey Pumpville Q Quincy R Rambo Ramerania Ramsdell Ratcliff Rayner Red River Station Regency Richard Rock Crusher Rock Island Rockledge Ronda Rowanville Roxana Royalty Runnels City Runningwater Rush Creek Rush Creek S Sabine Saline Salt Flat Salt Gap Scrap Segovia Serbin Shacklefoot Shady Grove Shafter Shafter Lake 2-18-08 Shanghai Shep 5-12-07 Sherwood Shumla 1-18-08 Silver Valley Simmons 5-17-07 Sipe Springs Sligo Soash South Bend Spade Spanish Fort Steele Creek Community Stiles Stoneham 12-29-07 Streetman Study Butte Sunshine Hill Sutherland Springs Swartwout Swearingen Sweden Swedonia Swenson Swinney Switch 7-13-07 T Tallys Talpa Tampico Tascosa Taylor Town Tecula Tejon Telegraph Terlingua Texana 4-28-08 Texon The Flat 3-3-08 The Grove 12-6-07 Theodore Three Points 11-22-08 Thrift Thurber Tinaja 7-6-07 Toadsuck Tokio Toto Town Bluff Toyah 9-1-08 Trickham Trio Troy Truitt Truscott Tulsa 2-25-08 Tulsita 2-25-08 Turpentine U Union Valley 10-28-07 Utica V Valley View Valley Wells Valera Van Raub 11-22-08 Vance Velehrad Velasco 8-8-07 Verbena Vigo Park Voss W Walthall Washburn Washington Wastella Watson Watson Wayside Wesson West Sweden Wetmore 1-23-08 White Spur Whiteflat Whiteland Whittenburg Who'd Thought It Whon Wiergate William Penn Wilmeth Wilmeth Z Zan 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Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Toyah Reeves Co 9-1-08

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Shafter Lake Andrews Co 2-18-08

Photos Courtesy Mike Price

Dexter Cooke Co 2-21-08

Photos Courtesy Ken Rudine

Tulsita Bee Co 2-25-08

Tulsa Winkler Co 2-25-08 No Photos

Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

Berg's Mill Bexar Co 2-14-08

Photos courtesy William Holmes

Democrat Mills Co 2-14-08

Photos Courtesy Barclay Gibson

East Sweden McCulloch Co 1-6-08

Copperas Kimble Co 1-8-08

Shumla Val Verde Co 1-18-08 No photos

Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Wetmore Bexar Co 1-23-08

Photos courtesy Mr. & Mrs. Sayles

Iatan Mitchell Co 1-18-08

Photo courtesy Howard Ivy

Lobo Culberson Co 1-6-08

Photos courtesy Mildred L Brown

Swartwout Polk Co 1-16-08

Photo courtesy William Perez & Stephen Taylor

Whiteland McCulloch Co 12-27-07

Photo courtesy Mike Price

Hagerman Grayson Co 1-13-08

Champion Nolan Co 12-28-07

Texas Ghost Towns by Night: The Nocturnal Photography of Noel Kerns 10-14-07

Ghost Towns for Sale:
Valuable Properties and Invaluable (Free) Advice 12-6-07

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Bakersfield Pecos Co 12-23-07

Baby Head Llano Co 12-23-07

Photos courtesy David E. Spencer & Barclay Gibson

The Grove Coryell Co 12-6-07

Photo courtesy William Perez

Whiteland McCulloch Co 12-7-07

Photos courtesy Mike Price, Lexie Nichols & Jordan Gibson

Fort Phantom Hill Jones Co 11-29-07

Photos courtesy Tom Hosier

Lajitas Brewster Co 11-26-07

Photos courtesy Heather Treadwell

Fort McKavett Menard Co 11-27-07

Vintage photo courtesy TXDoT

Belle Plain Callahan Co 11-25-07

Photos courtesy Mel Brown & George Shaffer

Gruene Comal Co 11-16-07

Photos courtesy Lexie Nichols & Jordan Gibson

Alton Denton Co 11-12-07

Photos courtesy Megan Harris

Lime City Coryell Co 11-24-07

Pancake Coryell Co 11-16-07

Ireland Coryell Co 11-15-07

Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson

Albert Gillespie Co 11-15-07

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson:

Goodwill Washington Co

Little Hope Wood Co

Bullock Young Co 10-14-07

Osage Coryell Co 10-24-07

Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

Albuquerque Gonzales Co 10-28-07

Union Valley Wilson Co 10-28-07

Penwell Ector County
Photos courtesy Lexie Nichols & Jordan Gibson

Doole McCulloch Co
Photos courtesy Lanelle Crumley

Photos Barclay Gibson

Illinois Bend Montague Co

Emma Crosby Co

Photos Ken Rudine

Juliff Fort Bend Co

Velasco Brazoria Co

China Grove Brazoria Co

Swinney Switch Live Oak Co
by Robin Sellman

Fostoria Montgomery Co

Photos Courtesy Terry Jeanson

Amphion Atascosa Co 6-30-07

Photos Courtesy Ken Rudine

Copano Refugio Co 6-39-97

TE photos

Kirtley Fayette Co 6-30-07

Photos Kenneth R. Scott and Pat Boren

Kerrick Dallam Co 6-11-07

Thurber Erath/Palo Pinto Co 6-8-07

Photos Donna Chevalier

Content Runnels Co 6-13-07

Talpa Coleman Co 6-13-07

Photos Ken Rudine

Cox's Point Calhoun Co 6-8-07

Photos Barclay Gibson

Odell Wilbarger Co 6-1-07

Afton Dickens Co 6-1-07

Drasco Runnels Co 6-22-07

Montell Uvalde Co 6-24-07

Simmons 5-17-07
Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson

Content 6-13-07
Photos courtesy Donna Chevalier

Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Shep 5-12-07

Bradshaw 3-31-07

Doan's Crossing 4-17-07

Lake View 3-29-07
Photos courtesy Wes Reeves

Indianola January Featured Ghost Town
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson 1-1-07

Gay Hill TE photos 12-1-06

Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson 12-1-06

Bryant Station

Bois D'Arc

Velehrad TE Photos 11-1-06

Amphion 11-3-06

Four McCulloch County Ghost Towns:

Whiteland 11-5-06

East Sweden | West Sweden | Marco 11-8-06

Live Oak County Ghost Towns:

Gussettville 10-6-06

Dinero 10-6-06

Lagarto 9-25-06

Soash
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-14-06

Oak Hill and Oak Hill Cemetery 10-6-06
A Bastrop County "scraped earth" cemetery

Bronco Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-10-06

Mariscal Mine Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone 8-11-06
"Deep inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National Register Historic District.

Hovey Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone 8-11-06

Newgulf Photos courtesy Lauren Meyers 7-30-06

Landergin Photo courtesy Ken Rudine 8-5-06

Washburn Photo courtesy Ken Rudine 8-5-06

Olive by W. T. Block 7-3-06
An Extinct Sawmill Town

Weldon, Texas
Vintage photos courtesy Marty Cash 8-9-06

Medicine Mound Photo courtesy Ken Rudine 8-7-06

Life in Clara 7-21-06
Written by Ray Johnston and Edith Johnston-Hall.
They grew up in Clara, Texas.

Gibtown 7-27-06

Readers' Comments:
I am a Texas Genealogist and love your section on Texas Ghost towns and I think your website ought to be linked to a Free Genealogy site such as www.Rootsweb.com for other genealogist to enjoy your articles. It sure can help with researching towns in Texas that no longer exist that are named on Texas Census Records. ... Please by all means continue this Great Site - Debra Kiggans LaMel, Wichita Falls

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