Author: Jason Smith - Page 114 - United States Ghost Towns

Ophir, Nevada Ghost Town

Lost in Nevada’s Toiyabe Range, Ophir’s haunting ruins whisper tales of a silver-rich boomtown that vanished into thin air.

Amid the Allegheny Mountains, a once-mighty industrial town now lies abandoned, its underground fires still burning after nearly 100 years.

This former Nevada mining town’s journey from gold-rich boomtown to ghostly ruins reveals a captivating tale of western ambition.

Built in 1883, Notom’s crumbling ruins reveal a peculiar pioneer town where no settler named Tom was allowed to stay.

Pioneer dreams washed away in Utah’s Virgin River Valley, where Northrop’s ghost town holds secrets of an ill-fated cotton colony.

Once a thriving silver mining town in Utah’s desert, Newhouse’s haunting ruins whisper stories of ambition, prosperity, and sudden abandonment.

Ghost town’s radical socialist experiment promised utopia in the Nevada desert before political tensions sealed its mysterious fate in 1919.

Journey into Nesbit Run’s haunting remnants, where underground fires still burn beneath this abandoned Pennsylvania coal town’s crumbling facades.

Discover the infamous Techatticup Mine and lawless past of Nelson, where $10 million in gold sparked deadly conflicts among outlaws.

Nebraska ghost town reveals a lost coal-mining empire where 2,500 people once chased the American Dream in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region.