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TEXAS GHOST
TOWNS
Vanishing Texas
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The deserted, forgotten, abandoned towns
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Texas Ghost
Towns (listed by region):
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| Regions as designated
by TED & TXDoT: |
| 2024
Featured Ghost Towns |
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Odell
Wilbarger Co 1-8-24
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| 2023
Featured Ghost Towns |
| 2022
Featured Ghost Towns |
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Hagerman
Grayson Co submerged ghost town 5-6-22
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| 2021
Featured Ghost Towns |
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Upland
First Upton County Seat 12-12-21
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Zulu
Hansford Co 3-1-21
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Texas Submerged
Ghost Towns :
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Aiken
Bell Co - Under Lake Belton
Bayou
Sabine Co - Under Toledo Bend Reservoir
Biegel
Fayette Co - Under Fayette Power Plant Lake
Bland
Bell Co - Under Lake Belton
Brookhaven
Bell Co - Under Lake Belton
Curry
Stephens Co - Under Hubbard Creek Reservoir
Devil’s
River Val Verde Co - Under Lake Amistad
Falcon
Zapata Co - Under Falcon Reservoir
Friendship
Williamson Co - Under Lake Granger
Hagerman
Grayson Coy - Under Lake Texoma
Halsell
Clay Co - Under Lake Arrowhead
Hopewell
Somervell Co - Under Squaw Creek Lake
Pickwick
Palo Pinto Co - Under Possum Kingdom Lake
Preston
Grayson Co - Under Lake Texoma
Sabinetown
Sabine Co - Under Toledo Bend Reservoir
Sparta
Bell Co - Under Lake Belton
Swartwout
Polk Co - Under Lake Livingston Reservoir
Time
Sabine Co - Under Toledo Bend Reservoir
Towash
Hill Co - Under Lake Whitney
Zana
San Augustine Co - Under Sam Rayburn Reservoir
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| 2020
Featured Ghost Towns |
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Mixon
Cherokee Co 10-15-20
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2019 Featured Ghost Towns |
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Towash
Hill Co submerged ghost town 1-11-19
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Augusta
Houston Co 1-4-19
Acol
Angelina/Polk/Tyler Co 1-4-19
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| 2018
Featured Ghost Towns |
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Ibex
Shackleford Co 9-1-18
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| 2017
Featured Ghost Towns |
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Wardville
Johnson Co first county seat 12-23-17
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Map - Click
on the region for town & city listings
*Regions
as designated by Texas Economic Development and TXDoT |
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Map
used by permission of TravelTex.com
(Texas Economic Development)
Image map (the links to regions) courtesy Sam Fenstermacher |
What readers
say
Thank you for
what you do to preserve the places that time forgot. - Charla Priddy
Marsh
My extended
family and I want to thank you for posting the Mackay pictures.
Our ancestors live on through these photos and stories. I feel good
that they are being seen in public, as they should be, as part of
a historical montage. - Ruben R. Hernandez
Those of us
who have traveled the state appreciate the time, exposure, and excellent
way you go about your task. And, those under 40 will someday be
grateful for what you are doing. - Henry Adrion III
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
What a delight!
... A refreshing breath of fresh air amidst the stale pages of the
usual travel web sites. I appreciate your mission, dedication and
the very high quality of the site. Thanks for what you do. - Sue
White, Rockwall, TX
"[We] just
returned from a four day trip all over south Texas. Yes, several
of these curiosities were kindled by reading Texas Escapes. One
of the more interesting sites we visited was Morris Ranch. I wouldn't
have ever stumbled on that ghost town, without reading your magazine."
- Chris W., Hurst, Texas
Thank you
for preserving history in this manner. - Margie E. Kiser, San Angelo
As is often
the case, I found your site while searching Google -- this time
for information on Study Butte and Terlingua. Your description of
Study Butte, comparing and contrasting it with Terlingua, is *FABULOUS*
and right on the mark. ... Thanks for the laughs, the information
and the great photos. - King Douglas
Thank you for
your coverage of our family's little ghost town. - Sarah Neuhaus
Hastings
As the years
go by it seems that another part of my life disappears. Thank you
for helping keep those memories alive. - Gary Staggs, Little Rock,
Arkansas
I'm a displaced
Texan, living in CA with the military. I was so happy to see all
the pictures you have of the small West Texas towns that my family
originally hails from. Glad to see you are attempting to keep history
alive. You have an EXCELLENT site! Keep up the good work. - Katherine
Mckinley, CA/USA
I find it
especially moving that you would devote time and effort to such
an obscure (and mostly vanished) little burg as Draw, and I express
gratitude on behalf of all of us who once lived in or even passed
through that little hamlet and now years later find it embedded
in our fond memories.- Nolan Porterfield
It’s good
to know that someone takes the time to keep up with the history
of the lesser known areas that are barely considered “towns.” Thanks
for that. - David Scheffler, Kosciusko, Texas
Your website
is absolutely fabulous. Every time I take a road trip across Texas
I always check your website first to see if there is something,
anything, a courthouse or ghosttown, that I should visit along the
way. - Bob Worley
I love the
general style of the entries. The humor is great. I especially liked
the nicknames for Mentone. Keep up the great work. This is the most
exciting thing I've seen for Texas devotees since the Texas Almanac.
- J. Barnes, Humble
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Thurber
"Texas' Premier Ghost Town" |
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Texas' Most Successful Ghost Town |
Langtry
Roy Bean's Home on the Railroad Track |
Stiles
Ghost Town with a Courthouse |
Mobeetie
"The Mother City of the Panhandle." |
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