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This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wyoming.

Classification

Table Rock (51257649277)
One of the buildings in Table Rock, which was bulldozed in 2011

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
Alva Crook County Semi-abandoned
Antelope Flats 1893 1912 Neglected
Atlantic City Fremont County 1868 Semi-abandoned
Baker Town Crook County East of Aladdin
Barrett Town Crook County West of Aladdin
Battle Carbon County July 3, 1778
Bear River City Beartown Uinta County Approximately 10 miles southeast of Evanston, WY 1867
Bear Rock 1906
Benton July to September 1868
Bessemer 1888
Bosler Albany County 1900
Bryan Sweetwater County September 1868
Buckhorn 1900
Buford Albany County
Cambria Weston County 1889 1928
Canyon Springs
Carbon Carbon County 1868 Abandoned
Carter Uinta County December 27, 1867
Clifton 1907
Cumberland Lincoln County 1900
Eadsville 1891
Empire Goshen County 1908
Forest City
Fort Laramie Goshen County 1834 Historic
Fort Steele
Gebo Hot Springs County
Hecla Laramie County
Horton
Jay Em Goshen County
Jeffrey City Fremont County
Jireh A planned college town that never took off.
Kane Big Horn County
Kirwin Park County Historic
Linwood Daggett County On the Wyoming-Utah state line
Lewiston
Lost Springs Converse County
Manhattan
Mineral Hill Crook County 1930s
Miner's Delight Fremont County 1867
Moskee
Pacific Springs
Piedmont Byrne Uinta County
Point of Rocks Sweetwater County
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
Van Tassell Niobrara County
Walcott Carbon County
Welcome Crook County Nearby to Mineral Hill Wyoming
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