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

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 |
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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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