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  2. Lists of ghost towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Appearance. ... This is a list of lists of ghost towns in the United States by state.

  3. Hanton City, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    The remains of a building foundation at Hanton City. Hanton City (known locally as Lost City) is a colonial-era ghost town in Smithfield, Rhode Island near Hanton City Trail. . The remains of Hanton City consist of several stone foundations, a burial site, a defunct dam apparently used for irrigation, and a dilapidated scattering of stone walls, typifying it as a standard small New England ...

  4. List of ghost towns by country - Wikipedia

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    Egypt. Avshalom, Dikla, Nahal Yam, Netiv HaAsara, Sufa, Talmei Yosef, Yamit, and Pri'el were Israeli settlements in the Sinai built after the Six-Day War in 1967. They were dismantled by the Israeli government after the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 and are today abandoned.

  5. List of ghost towns in Idaho - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of ghost towns in Idaho.A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains.A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions or uncontrolled lawlessness.

  6. Ghost town - Wikipedia

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    Ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is the only ghost town that is the capital of a modern political territory. It was rendered uninhabitable and evacuated in 1995, after being inundated with volcanic ash from the eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano. A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement ...

  7. Bodie, California - Wikipedia

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    Bodie (/ ˈ b oʊ d iː / BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States.It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, [6] at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2554 m). [1]

  8. List of ghost towns in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of some notable ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado. A ghost town is a former community that now has no year-round residents or less than 1% of its peak population. Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns, although visible remains of only about 640 still exist. Due to incomplete records, no exhaustive list can be produced.

  9. List of ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Railroad sign for Constitution, in Dekalb County, which was absorbed into Atlanta. The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Georgia. Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields.