North Texas and South Central Texas Ghost Towns. (original) (raw)

Ghost Towns

Counties

Description

Alexander

Erath

A ghost town with ghosts

Aiken

Bell

Submerged under Lake Belton

Alligator

Bell

Once upon a time ...

Alpha

Dallas

Absorbed by Dallas

Alton

Denton

Fascinating history

Ash Creek

Hill

Near Ash Creek

Babylon

Navarro

Not on County Map

Barnesville

Johnson

Not on the map

Beattie

Comanche

Near Comanche

Belcherville

Montague

Population: 34

Birdville

Tarrant

First Tarrant County seat

Birdston

Navarro

The Birdston Cemetery remains

Bland

Bell

Under Lake Belton

Blanton 5-1-20

Hill

Population 8, with cemetery

Bono

Johnson

Cemetery & church remains

Boz

Ellis

Threatened by the supercollider project

Brazos Point

Bosque

With a bridge

Brookhaven

Bell

Submerged under Lake Belton

Buchanan

Johnson

Former county seat

Buckner

Collin

First Collin County seat

Bucksnort

Falls

Historical Marker

Buena Vista

Ellis

West of Waxahachie

Bug Tussle

Fannin

Everybody's favorite place name

Bulcher

Cooke

South of the Red River

Bullock

Young

Population: 0

Cambridge

Clay

Early Clay County seat

Carlton

Hamilton

Ghost town with a post office

Carter

Parker

Established around a flourmill

Cave Creek

Coryell

Not on the map

Chalk Mountain

Erath

A cemetery and a Masonic lodge

Climax

Collin

Not on the Texas Official Travel Map

Clinton 10-5-21

Hunt

Historic cemetery

College Mound

Kaufman

One of the county's oldest communities

Comyn

Comanche

Once known as Theney

Cora

Comanche

Former Comanche County Seat

Cottage Hill 6-4-20

Collin

Historic church & cemetery

Cranz

Gonzales

Not on the county map

Crossville

Bell

Now part of Fort Hood

Cryer Creek

Navarro

Named after a creek

Custer City

Cooke

Named after George Armstrong Custer

Deer Creek

Clay

All signs point to Deer Creek

Dexter

Cooke

Not on the Texas Official Travel Map

Dido

Tarrant

Bypassed by the railroad - again

Direct

Lamar

Near Paris

Donahoe 8-29-20

Bell

Flowers For Sarah Herndon

Eliga

Coryell

Now part of Fort Hood

Elizabethtown

Denton

Bypass by the railroad

Erudia

Collin

Now part of Frisco

Finis

Jack

The end of Finis

Fort Spunky

Hood

Settled in 1849

Fowler

Bosque

Name changed to Steiner

Frognot

Collin

A standpipe remains

Furd

Clay

History unknown

Gerald

McLennan

Church and cemetery remain

Gibtown

Jack

Once a commercial center for three Counties

Glory

Lamar

Near Paris

Granny's Neck

Delta

Remembered with a historical marker

Hagerman

Grayson

Under Lake Texoma

Halsell

Clay

Submerged Ghost Town

Hebron

Denton

A Ghost Town That Isn�t

Hemming

Cooke

Tornado

Hopewell

Somervell

Now Under Squaw Creek Lake

Hubbard

Coryell

Now on the grounds of Fort Hood

Illinois Bend

Montague

Close to Oklahoma

India

Ellis

Remembered by settlers' descendants

Indian Gap

Hamilton

Population 27 with an abandoned schoolhouse

Ireland 5-7-20

Coryell

With a former depot

Jellico

Tarrant

Near Grapevine

Jester

Navarro

Created by the railroad

Johnsville

Erath

A church & cemetery remain

Kentucky Town

Grayson

Settled by Kentucky emigrants

Kerby 9-10-20

Hill

Remembered with a marker

Kimball

Bosque

A ghost town in a park by a lake

Kit

Dallas

Absorbed by Irving. Cemetery remains

Lanham

Hamilton

Church and cemetery

Lanham Mill Community

Somervell

A cemetery remains

Lebanon

Collin

Historic home & church

Lebanon

Hill

Home of Latham Springs Baptist Encampment

Lime City

Coryell

On private property

Lingleville

Erath

Population: Est. 100

Lovelace

Hill

Population 12

Mars

Van Zandt

Faded into oblivion sometime after 1945

Marysville

Cooke

Camp Howze took much of the land

Maxdale

Bell

Historic Cemetery & Bridge

Mayfield

Hill

With an unnamed cemetery

McGirk

Hamilton

On the Lampasas River

Mercer's Gap

Comanche

A cemetery & scattered residences remain

Milton

Lamar

Population: 80

Mount Vernon

Lamar

A centennial marker remains

Mustang

Denton

Population dispersed

Nash

Ellis

Near Waxahachie

Needmore

Delta

AKA Pecan

Newberry

Parker

Church & cemetery remain

Norse

Bosque

Norwegian Settelment

Nussbaumer

Dallas

Disappeared from maps in the 1930s.

Oasis

Dallas

Annexed by Dallas

Odds

Limestone

Not far from Waco

Ohio

Hamilton

On Plum Creek

Okay

Bell

Near Killeen

Osage

Coryell

Not on the map

Otto

Falls

Once over 1,000 residents

Ozro

Ellis

Population 0

Palestine

Lamar

Remembered by a road sign

Pancake

Coryell

It's about mail

Pansy

Navarro

Not on the map

Perry

Falls

Near Waco

Personville

Limestone

Historical Marker & cemetery

Pluto

Ellis

Not on the map

Poe Prairie

Parker

A cemetery

Preston

Grayson

Submerged under Lake Texoma

Razor

Lamar

With an old cemetery

Red River Station

Montague

One of Texas' early ghost towns

Richard

Collin

A cemetery

Ruth

Coryell

Absorbed by Fort Hood

Searsville TE's 1000th ghost town

Bosque/McLennan

A church remains

Sefcikville

Bell

Population 0

Silver Lake

Van Zandt

Once a stop for the T & P Railroad

Sipe Springs

Comanche

"Little girl, age 3 died 1870, moving west."

Slater

Coryell

Schoolhouse & cemetery remain

Smithfield

Tarrant

Absorbed into North Richland Hills

Sowers

Dallas

Absorbed by Irving. Cemetery remains

Spanish Fort

Montague

Close to Oklahoma

Sparta

Bell

Submerged under Lake Belton

Springfield

Limestone

Now within a state historic site

Steele Creek Community

Limestone

A cemetery

Steiner

Bosque

A ferry once operated near here

Stewards Mill

Freestone

With two historical landmarks

Stony

Denton

Settled in the late 1850s

Streetman

Freestone

Population declined after WWII

Stringtown

Bell

A church still stands

Suez

Comanche

On the 1907 postal map

Sugar Loaf

Coryell

Absorbed by Fort Hood

Summer�s Mills

Bell

On the 1907 postal map

Tama

Coryell

Absorbed by Fort Hood

Tarrant

Tarrant

An absorbed ghost town

Taylor Town

Lamar

Near Paris

The Grove

Coryell

Near Temple

Thurber

Erath

Texas' premier ghost town

Toadsuck

Grayson

Now part of Collinsville

Toto

Parker

Formerly known as Ray School Community

Towash

Hill

Submerged under Lake Whitney

Trueloves

Johnson

Found in vintage map

Twin Wells

Dallas

Absorbed by Irving. A bridge remains

Union Bower

Dallas

Absorbed by Irving.

Wardville

Johnson

Former county seat

White Hall 7-16-20

Coryell

Not on the map

Whitt

Parker

Once home to 500