Author: Jason Smith - Page 73 - United States Ghost Towns

Sunflower Village (Clearview City), Kansas Ghost Town

Clearview City’s transformation from a wartime powder plant community to an eerie Kansas ghost town holds secrets waiting to be uncovered.

Journey back to Sun City, Kansas, where a bustling frontier town of 10,000 mysteriously shrank to just 34 souls.

In 1856, a bustling Free State settlement rose to 2,500 residents before nature and changing transportation routes sealed its fate.

Unassuming Kansas ghost town harbors dark legends about its cemetery, which some claim conceals one of Hell’s own gateways.

Kansas coal mining boomtown Stringtown rose and fell within decades, leaving only memories of its 19th-century frontier prosperity.

Peek beneath Kansas’s John Redmond Reservoir to discover Strawn, a submerged ghost town with an extraordinary tale of communal survival.

Ghost town Strawberry flourished with wild berries and pioneer dreams until economic hardship turned this Kansas settlement into abandoned ruins.

Ghost town Stockdale lies beneath Kansas waters, waiting to reveal its pioneer secrets when Tuttle Creek Lake recedes.

Pro-slavery militants and abolitionists once clashed in Stanton, Kansas, leaving behind haunting ruins that whisper stories of a violent past.

In 1880s Kansas, Springfield’s rise and fall from frontier boomtown to ghostly ruins reveals the fleeting nature of railroad dreams.