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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Wisconsin .
Sites no longer in existence
Sites that have been destroyed
Covered with water
Reverted to pasture
May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most Only rubble left
Roofless building ruins
Buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless Building or houses still standing
Buildings and houses all abandoned
No population, except caretaker
Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store Semi-abandoned site [ edit ] Building or houses still standing
Buildings and houses largely abandoned
Few residents
Many abandoned buildings
Small population Building or houses still standing
Still a busy community
Smaller than its boom years
Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less
Town name
Other names
County
Latitude/longitude
Established
Disestablished
Current status
Remarks
Adams Center
Adams 43°54′58″N 89°47′50″W 1964
Adamsville
Iowa 42°54′26″N 89°54′45″W
Birthplace of Alva Adams
Anchorage
Buffalo 44°16′07″N 91°45′26″W
Barren
Apostle Islands [ 1] Ashland and Bayfield 46°55′48″N 90°37′59″W September 26, 1970
Army Lake
Walworth 42°48′24″N 88°22′31″W
Ashford
Richland 43°20′48″N 90°28′05″W
Attica [ 2] Green 42°46′12″N 89°28′50″W
Now part of the town of Brooklyn .
Aurora
Kenosha April 30, 1891
Barren
Site of one of the area's earliest post offices; now part of the city of Kenosha .
Bagdad
Forest 45°39′22″N 88°42′13″W
Belmont [ 1] [ 2] Lafayette 40°46'7"N 90°22'49"W 1836
1837
First Wisconsin territorial capital; abandoned after one session. Located about three miles NW of the present town of Belmont.
Benson's Corner [ 3] Nixon Corner, Bristol Corner
Kenosha
Located "just up the road" from the present community of Bristol.
Bissell
Kenosha
Absorbed
Now part of the village of Bristol .
Bluff Siding [ 1] [ 4] Buffalo
Bohri
Buffalo 44°08′42″N 91°36′10″W
Calhoun
Waukesha
Ceresco
the Wisconsin Phalanx
Fond du Lac 43°50′55″N 88°51′6″W 1844
1858
A commune founded by followers of the communitarian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.
Charter Oak Mills
Jackson 44°16′07″N 90°52′30″W
Cheyenne Valley [ 2] Vernon
Clarence
Green 42°35′26″N 89°23′54″W
Clason Prairie
Dodge
Clay
Jackson 44°23′46″N 90°40′50″W
Clay Banks [ 5] Door
Cooksville [ 1] [ 4] Rock
Coolidge
Price 45°48'42"N 90°24'29"W
Cortland
Trempealeau 44°12'50"N 91°34'04"W
Corwin
Richland 43°30′12″N 90°16′53″W
Cream [ 1] [ 4] Eagle Creek
Buffalo
Crusher [ 4] Dodge
Cypress [ 3] Hoadley
Kenosha
There is some confusion as to whether Cypress was a later designator of Pikeville, or geographically distinct.
De Noon
Waukesha and Racine
Delhi [ 6] Winnebago 44°01'22"N 88°48'08"W
Dell Prairie
Adams 43°40'02"N 89°42'55"W
Dellwood [ 4] Adams
Dill [ 2] Adams
Dirty Hollow
Iowa 42°57′48″N 90°7′52″W
Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville.
Dodges Corners
Waukesha 42°51'32"N 88°14'30"W
Donaldson [ 4] Vilas
Dover
Known variously as Heyworth, Reevesville, East Arena, and Ghorstville prior to 1851
Iowa 43°9′43″N 89°50′18″W 1844
ca. 1870
Originally established by the British Temperance and Emigration Society, Dover was slowly abandoned when it was bypassed by the railroad in favor of Mazomanie.
Dunville [ 1] Dunn
Emerson [ 1] Iron
Exeter [ 2] Green
Falls City [ 4] Eau Claire
Farmers Grove
Green 42°47'06"N 89°43'27"W
Fellows
Rock 42°44'53"N 89°12'03"W
Fordham
Adams 43°58'55"N 89°44'20"W
Fort Crawford [ 1] Crawford
Fort Howard [ 1] Brown
Foscoro [ 5] Door
Frenchtown [ 2] Dane
Good Hope
Milwaukee
Granite City
Waupaca 44°38'02"N 88°59'28"W
Granite Quarry
Waupaca 44°25'02"N 89°04'04"W
Gratiot's Grove [ 2] Lafayette
Harmon
Washburn 46°04′04″N 91°40′06″W
Harrison
Calumet 44°08′03″N 88°17′30″W
Hatton
Waupaca 44°15′34″N 88°59′20″W
Helena [ 1] Old Helena, Helena Station
Iowa
Henrietta
Richland
Horns Pier [ 5] Door
Jefferson Prairie Settlement
Rock 42°29'37"N 88°51'48"W
Kaiser
Price 45°54'35"N 90°33'06"W
Keith
Forest 45°30′30″N 88°52′58″W
Kennedy
Price 45.9102815,-90.6662547
Kennedys Corners
Sheboygan 43°40′28″N 87°52′13″W
Klondike Corner [ 3] Klondike
Kenosha 42.590271 -88.134038
Now part of Brighton .
Knowlton [ 1] Marathon
Knox Mills
Price 45.5000037,-90.1302873
Kurth
Clark 44°34′27″N 90°29′48″W
Lake Emily
Portage 44°28′40″N 89°20′05″W
LaRue [ 2] Sauk
Lawesburg
Outagamie 44°15′31.02″N 88°23′00.47″W
Lime Rock
Outagamie 44°30′03.52″N 88°21′03.77″W
Little Wolf
Waupaca 44°25′20″N 88°54′05″W
Manson
Oneida
Maple Works
Clark
Marble
Waupaca 44°33′45″N 88°52′15″W
Mayhews
Walworth 42°45′47″N 88°29′24″W
McGrew
Richland 43.3975039,-90.5013984
Mill Creek
Richland 43.3866706,-90.5527107
Millville [ 1] Grant
Minersville
Iowa 42.963337 -90.133299
Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville .
Moe Settlement
Columbia 43°35′55″N 89°41′58″W
Moscow [ 2] Iowa
Muskego Settlement
Racine
Nasbro [ 4] Dodge
Nelsonville
Eau Claire 44°39′15″N 91°34′12″W
Neshonoc [ 1] La Crosse
New Cassel
Fond du Lac
Eventually absorbed into Campellsport .
New Chester
Adams
New City
Trempealeau 44.3488927,-91.4498658
New Diggings [ 2] Lafayette
New Upsala
Waukesha
Nowell
Waupaca 44°29′22″N 88°47′53″W
Oak Grove
Eau Claire 44°40′21″N 91°36′19″W
Oakwood
Milwaukee
Oil City [ 2] Monroe
Old Tyrone
Dunn 44°42′50″N 91°50′34″W
Perote
Menominee 45°05′28″N 88°48′46″W
Petersville
Waupaca 44°32′18″N 89°11′00″W
Pikeville Corners
Pikeville
Kenosha 42.49613 -88.0332206
While Pikeville continues to exist as a geographical place name on modern maps, today it is incorporated into the village of Bristol . See also Cypress, above.
Pilot Knob
Adams 43.9875038,-89.6355651
Pleasant Ridge [ 2] Grant 42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W c. 1850 1959
Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s, Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people, approximately half of whom were African Americans, through the early 20th century. The last resident died in 1959.[ 7]
Pokerville [ 4] [ 8] Dane
Porter's Mills
Eau Claire 44°46′15″N 91°34′01″W
Quincy
Adams
Ranney [ 4] Kenosha
Raymond Center
Racine
Reeds Corners
Fond du Lac
Roche a Cri
Adams 44.0536149,-90.9539387
Rodney
Waushara 43°59′07″N 89°07′42″W
Rogneys
Jackson 44.193337 -91.060799
Root Creek
Milwaukee
Sacramento [ 1] Waushara
Savoy
Buffalo 44.523609 -92.058620
Schultz [ 2] Green
Selma [ 3] Sand Ridge
Kenosha
Sinnipee [ 2] Grant 42°34′31″N 90°39′25″W
Springbluff
Adams 43.9233371,-91.9189887
Springdale
Buffalo 44.523609 -92.058620
St. Feriole Island [ 1] Crawford
St. Martin's
Milwaukee
Staadts
Marathon
Star Lake [ 1] Vilas
Stettin
Marathon
Stewart [ 2] Green
Stonefield [ 1] Grant
Stonehaven [ 9] [ 10] Ozaukee 43°29'48"N 87°47'41"W 1901
1925
Former company town of the Lake Shore Stone Company. Residents moved when the company closed the nearby quarry in 1925.
Sugar Bush [ 1] Marinette
Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Trow
Clark 44°29′30″N 90°45′46″W
Turtleville [ 2] Rock
Valley
Vernon 43°64'17"N 90°54'18"W
Voree ("Garden of Peace") [ 1] [ 2] Adams
Wakefield
Outagamie 44°15′56.33″N 88°32′13.52″W
Welch Point
Dunn 44°42′10″N 92°00′46″W
Wells [ 4] Calumet , Manitowoc [ 4]
Willet
Green 42.723337 -89.811676
Williamsburg
Trempealeau 44.3138927,-91.4632998
Williamsonville [ 1] Door
Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Winooski
Sheboygan 43°42′25″N 87°59′2″W
Witcome [ 4] Shawano [ 4]
Woodworth
Kenosha 42.558074, -88.001192
While Woodworth continues as a geographical designator on modern maps, it is today incorporated into the village of Bristol .
Worden
Clark
Wrightsville
Jackson 44.414448 -90.8536
Zarahemla [ 2] Lafayette
Ziegler
Marathon
Notes and references [ edit ]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin" . website . Rootsweb. August 7, 2010. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin" . Wisconsin Public Television. October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ a b c d "Kenosha County WI Placenames" . website . Rootsweb. September 8, 2003. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Ghost Towns -- Wisconsin" . website . Ghosttowns.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ a b c "Ghost Towns #2....The Ghostly Trio.... Foscoro, Clay Banks and Horns Pier" . Wisconsinology . April 4, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ "Ghost Towns #1....Delhi, Wisconsin" . Wisconsinology . March 1, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ "Pleasant Ridge: A Community of Black Farmers in Wisconsin" . Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 21, 2020 .^ "Pokerville, the vanished village is Dane County's earliest town" . newspaper article . Wisconsin State Journal. December 6, 1925. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ "Harrington Beach State Park: Master Plan and Environmental Analysis" (PDF) . Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .^ "Milwaukee ruins: Pabst Whitefish Resort, Commerce Street & Stonehaven" . OnMilwaukee.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
Stark, William F. (1977). Ghost Towns of Wisconsin . Sheboygan: Zimmermann Press. OCLC 3564408 .
