Author: Jason Smith - Page 74 - United States Ghost Towns

Springdale, Kansas Ghost Town

Curious pioneers built Springdale into a thriving Irish settlement before nature and economics transformed it into Kansas’ forgotten ghost town.

Founded in 1885 around artesian wells, Spring Lake and Artesian City vanished as their life-giving waters slowly disappeared beneath Kansas soil.

Gold fever lured settlers to Smoky Hill City, Kansas in 1899, but this once-promising mining town now stands frozen in time.

Just outside Augusta lies Smileyberg, where crumbling buildings whisper tales of two settlers’ forgotten prairie dreams.

Hidden along Kansas’s forgotten railroad tracks, Skiddy’s weathered buildings whisper tales of a once-thriving frontier water stop.

Just miles from Kansas City, the haunting Six-Mile House tavern once sheltered fugitive slaves and harbored deadly secrets behind its walls.

Claiming nearly 600 residents in 1916, Sitka’s bustling railway town now stands abandoned after a devastating fire changed everything.

Where a French socialist’s dream of silk production and utopian living vanished, mysterious limestone ruins still whisper tales of Silkville’s past.

From bustling railroad hub to forgotten ghost town, Sidney’s abandoned ruins echo the rise and fall of Kansas’ frontier dreams.

When pioneers built Sibley beside its namesake lake in 1869, they never imagined their ambitious settlement would vanish into Kansas farmland.