Historic Great Plains Ghost Towns

The Great Plains were settled fast and abandoned almost as quickly in many areas. The homestead boom of the late 1800s filled the plains with hopeful farming communities, and the combination of drought, falling crop prices, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s emptied many of them just as fast. Great Plains ghost towns stretch across Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma – flat horizons interrupted by crumbling grain elevators, empty main streets, and overgrown cemeteries.

Explore Great Plains Ghost Towns

Jason Smith’s Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota ghost town volumes cover the Great Plains region’s most compelling abandoned communities.

Ghost Towns of Kansas on Amazon

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