Ghost Towns in Missouri

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.

There are countless Ghost Towns in Missouri and the United States. This will be an on-going project that may never be able to be fully completed. There are many Ghost Towns in New Mexico that have been completely wiped from existence.

 

Adair	Clay	Iron	Montgomery	St. Clair
Andrew	Clinton	Jackson	Morgan	Ste. Genevieve
Atchison	Cole	Jasper	New Madrid	St. Francois
Audrain	Cooper	Jefferson	Newton	St. Louis
Barry	Crawford	Johnson	Nodaway	Saline
Barton	Dade	Knox	Oregon	Schuyler
Bates	Dallas	Laclede	Osage	Scotland
Benton	Daviess	Lafayette	Ozark	Scott
Bollinger	DeKalb	Lawrence	Pemiscot	Shannon
Boone	Dent	Lewis	Perry	Shelby
Buchanan	Douglas	Lincoln	Pettis	Stoddard
Butler	Dunklin	Linn	Phelps	Stone
Caldwell	Franklin	Livingston	Pike	Sullivan
Callaway	Gasconade	McDonald	Platte	Taney
Camden	Gentry	Macon	Polk	Texas
Cape Girardeau	Greene	Madison	Pulaski	Vernon
Carroll	Grundy	Maries	Putnam	Warren
Carter	Harrison	Marion	Ralls	Washington
Cass	Henry	Mercer	Randolph	Wayne
Cedar	Hickory	Miller	Ray	Webster
Chariton	Holt	Mississippi	Reynolds	Worth
Christian	Howard	Moniteau	St. Charles	Wright
Clark	Howell	Monroe

 

 

 

Abattis	Abells	Acid	Adair	Adam-Ondi-Aman
Adams Mill	Adamsburg	Air	Albany	Alderney
Alexander & Rieds Mill	Alexandria	Allen Ford Mill	Alston	Alton Ferry Landing
Apple Creek	Apple Creek Mill	Appleton	Appleton Mine	Argo
	Arnett	Arrow Rock	Arroyo	Ash Landin
Ash Mill	Athens	Atherton	Audrains Mill	August
Augusta Ferry	Augusta Station	Austin City	Austins Mill	Austria

 

• Arlington, Missouri

Avery Settlement

Avoca

Avon Mines

Avory

• Bloodland, Missouri
  • Bloodland is a ghost town in southern Pulaski County, Missouri, surrounded by Ft. Leonard Wood. The town is near Big Piney, Missouri and close to Palace, Missouri, which is outside the South Gate of Fort Leonard Wood. Bloodland is located near the Waynesville Regional Airport (TBN).
• Beatyville, Missouri
  • was situated on Sec. 3 & 4, T63N, R15W in Polk Township.
    (New Atlas of Missouri, 1874, Campbell, Map 14.) 
• Bullion, Missouri
  • was situated on Sec. 17, T62N, R14W on the Burlington Railroad north of (Highway) 6 on (Highway F.). The post office was discontinued pre-1905.
    (General Scheme of Missouri, 1905, Taft, p. 3.)
    No visible remains
• Cookville, Missouri
  • Coordinates: 37°38'56"N 92°12'36"W
    Cookville is a ghost town in western Pulaski County, Missouri. Cookville is a former town in a forest near Fort Leonard Wood. Cookville is surrounded in a river. What's left in Cookville is two houses.
• Lakeside Estate, Missouri
  • Lakeside Estate is a former settlement in Benton County, Missouri, United States. Lakeside Estate was a resort community on the Osage River in southern Cole Township.

Cane Creek

Cull

Dupont

Empire Prairie (Couchtown)

• Enough, Missouri
  • Enough is a ghost town in Iron County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
    A post office called Enough was established in 1916, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1937. According to tradition, the name was selected because postal authorities "had enough" first choices.

Far West

• Goldman, Missouri
  • Coordinates: 38°17'50"N 90°31'17"W
    Goldman is a tiny ghost town in Jefferson County, Missouri, about 25 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri, and five miles north of the county courthouse at Hillsboro, Missouri. Goldman is located on Old Lemay Ferry Road, an old trade route connecting Hillsboro and St. Louis.
    Goldman is adjacent to the historic Sandy Creek Covered Bridge, only one of four covered bridges in Missouri and a state historic site.
    The town is near the site where Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and two other people perished on October 16, 2000, in an airplane crash.

Half Rock

• Hauns Mill
  • Hauns Mill was a Mormon community built with a mill owned by Jacob Haun. During the Mormon War, thirty to forty families gathered in this area for safety. On 30 Oct 1838, 250 militiamen under Colonel Thomas Jennings attacked the community, killing 18 and wounding another 13 men, women and children.
    Today, nothing remains of this community which was located just east of Far West in Caldwell County.

Hematite

• Hopewell Furnace, Washington County, Missouri
  • Hopewell Furnace is a former unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
• Hopewell, Mississippi County, Missouri
  • Hopewell is a former unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri, United States. It was a small settlement in northeastern Ohio Township.
• Hopewell, Daviess County, Missouri
  • Hopewell is a former unincorporated community in Daviess County, Missouri, United States.
• Holman, Missouri

 

Jollification

Jordon Kirk

Little Compton

Lucerne

Main City

• Marion City
  • Marion City was a bustling riverport on the Mississippi River when a flood destroyed the town in 1848. At that time, many moved nearby to Palmyra, but some rebuilt Marion City.
    A second flood several years later destroyed what was left of the town and it was permanently deserted. There is a highway marker identifying its location.

Marmaros

Medhill

Melva

• Midway, Missouri
  • Coordinates: 37.054°N 94.501°W
    Midway was a former village located in northern Newton County, Missouri. It was completely surrounded by the city of Joplin except for the east side where it shared city limits with Sunnyvale. Both it and Sunnyvale have now merged with the city of Joplin. It was located on the south side of 32nd Street (Missouri Supplemental Route FF).

Mineola

Modoc

• Oakland Park, Missouri
  • Coordinates: 37°06'46"N 94°28'34"W
    Oakland Park is a former village in Jasper County, Missouri. It was located on U.S. Route 71 (Rangeline Road- now Business I-49) in the Joplin area. Its population in 1990 was 89. It incorporated in 1957; in 1996, it merged with nearby Webb City.

Old Aurora Springs

Old Franklin

Old Greenville

Oscar

• Phenix

Pierpont

Pink Hill

Polepenhollow School

• Possum Trot, Missouri
  • Coordinates: 36°58'43"N 93°25'45"W
    Possum Trot is a former town in northeastern Stone County, Missouri, United States, about eight miles southwest of Nixa on Missouri Supplemental Route M. Only the remains of a church and a house are left.
    The general store at Possum Trot was operated by the descendants of Jackson B. and Emma Stewart Wilson, William Jasper Wilson, and his brother John Washington Wilson during the early part of the 20th Century. Part of the community was once known as Self.

Reedville

Ridgeway

Sherwood

Sigsbee

Sligo

Sparta

Spitlog

St John

• Sunnyvale, Missouri
  • Coordinates: 37°03'03"N 94°29'43"W
    Sunnyvale is a former village in northern Newton County, Missouri. It merged with Joplin in 1987. Joplin surrounded the village on all sides except for Midwayon the west, which also merged with Joplin. Its northern boundary with Joplin was Missouri Supplemental Route FF, also known as 32nd Street.

Times Beach

• Toonerville, Missouri
  • Toonerville is an unincorporated community in St. Charles County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
    The community was named after Toonerville Folks, a comic strip.

Van Horn Tavern

• Wayman, Missouri

West Liberty

Wittenburg

• Xenia, Missouri
  • Xenia is an unincorporated community in Nodaway County, Missouri, in the United States.
    Founded in 1845, it was named after Xenia, Ohio

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