Ghost towns

An abandoned village is a village which has for some reason been deserted, in many countries many thousands of villages were deserted at several periods in history, for a variety of causes. Often related to plague, famine, war, climate change and environmental destruction or deliberate clearances. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abandoned village"

Benjamin Franklin Ficklin founded this town to support his Texas stagecoach operation in the mid-nineteenth century. After his death, the town was named in his honor, Ben Ficklin, Texas. Today, it is a ghost town. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ben Ficklin, Texas"

Bragg, Texas is a ghost town that once flourished in the early 1900’s in the Big Thicket forest area in southeast Texas. Sometimes referred to as “Bragg Station”, this small community lies ten miles west of Kountze, Texas in Hardin County. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bragg, Texas"

Bussana Vecchia (Old Bussana) is a 1000 years old ghost town in Liguria a few kilometers from the Italian-French border, it depends administratively from the city of San Remo, IM. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bussana Vecchia, Liguria"

Cook ( ) is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Adelaide to Perth, with no inhabited places around. It has a few houses, and fuel tanks for the locomotives. The crossing loop can cross trains up to 1800m long. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cook, South Australia"

Cossack ( ) is a historic ghost town located 1480 km north of Perth in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Many of the buildings are listed by the National Trust. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cossack, Western Australia"

Crotty ( ) was a gazetted townsite in Tasmania, which had a smelter and railway connection with the North Mount Lyell mine in the very early twentieth century. The North Mount Lyell smelters failed, and the company was absorbed by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. The townsite soon lost population, and the North Mount Lyell Railway which serviced Crotty's connections with Gormanston (and Linda) and Pillinger (Kelly Basin) remained in service for a couple of decades before closing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crotty, Tasmania" Enjoy shortopedia. shortopedia

Dallas was a town in Ouray County in the United States state of Colorado about 3 miles (5 km) north of the present town of Ridgway at the confluence of Dallas Creek and the Uncompahgre River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dallas, Colorado"

Dudleytown is an extinct settlement in Connecticut, Also known as Owlsbury. A remote extension to the town of Cornwall, it is best known for its "haunted" forest. It is listed in Weird U.S. by Mark Moran and Mark Scuerman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dudleytown"

This article is about the village of Dunwich in England. For information on the fictional setting from the Cthulhu mythos, see Dunwich (H. P. Lovecraft). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dunwich"

Farina ( ) a town in the far north of South Australia. The mean annual rainfall is 163.6 mm, although it is highly variable. ...more on Wikipedia about "Farina, South Australia"

A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned, usually because the economic activity that supported it has failed or because of natural or human-caused disasters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ghost town"

Goldsworthy ( ) was a mining town in Western Australia not far from Port Hedland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goldsworthy, Western Australia"

Gwalia (the Welsh term for Wales) ( ) is a former gold-mining town located 233 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie and 828 kilometres east of Perth in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. Today, Gwalia is essentially a ghost town, having been largely deserted since the main source of employment, the Sons of Gwalia gold mine, shut down in 1963. Just 4 kilometres north is the town of Leonora, which remains a hub to the area's mining and pastoral industries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gwalia, Western Australia"

Hallsands is a deserted village in South Devon, England, in a precarious position between cliffs and the sea, between Beesands to the north and Start Point to the south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hallsands, Devon"

Imber is an abandoned village in Wiltshire, in England. Situated in the middle of Salisbury Plain, the village has been used by the Army for training since 1943. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imber"

Jonestown, a town in Guyana established by Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones, was located about six to eight miles (10 to 12 km) from Port Kaituma ( ). At Jones' directions, the inhabitants committed mass suicide in 1978. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jonestown"

Kanowna is a ghost town in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. It is located at ), about 20 km east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kanowna, Western Australia"

Kiandra is an abandoned gold mining town in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. There has been no permanent population since the 1880s even though a few ruins and one building still exist. The town, at its height, housed about ten thousand miners and store keepers. It is situated on a high, treeless ridge which is snow covered during winter, and is subject to high winds. The town is also known as the birthplace of Australian skiing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kiandra, New South Wales"

Knaptoft is a civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of around 50. It is also a deserted village in this parish. The village was deserted in the 17th century, and the only visible remains are some farm buildings and a ruined parish church. ...more on Wikipedia about "Knaptoft"

The following is a partial list of ghost towns: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of ghost towns"

Martinsthorpe is a deserted village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martinsthorpe"

Maytown was the main settlement on the Palmer River goldfields in Far North Queensland. It is now a ghost town. Originally named Edwardstown, the town was settled in the early 1870s. In 1900 the town had a poulation of 674, nearly two thirds of whom were Chinese gold miners. The town was largely abandoned by 1945. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maytown, Queensland"

Moliagul ( ) is a small township in Victoria, Australia, 202 kilometres north west of Melbourne, (60 kilometres west of Bendigo) notable for the discovery of the worlds largest gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger in 1869. The area is a historical gold mining town and is now mostly deserted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moliagul, Victoria"

Mologa (Моло́га) is a former town in Yaroslavl Oblast, at the confluence of Mologa and Volga Rivers, now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Reservoir. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mologa" shortopedia for you!

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