List of ghost towns in Wyoming facts for kids
This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wyoming.
Contents
Classification
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 |
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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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