List of ghost towns in Wisconsin

This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wisconsin.

Ghost towns

Town name   County   Established   Disestablished   Latitude/Longitude   Remarks   
Adams Center Adams 43°54′58″N 89°47′50″W
Adamsville Iowa 42°54′26″N 89°54′45″W
Anchorage Buffalo 44°16′07″N 91°45′26″W
Apostle Islands[1] Ashland and Bayfield 17th century 46°55′48″N 90°37′59″W
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 1830s 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
Bay View Milwaukee 1879 1886
Belmont[1][2] Lafayette 1836 1837 40°46'7"N 90°22'49"W First Wisconsin territorial capital; abandoned after one session. Located about three miles NW of the present town of Belmont.
Benson's Corner[3] Kenosha Aka Nixon Corner, aka Bristol Corner. Located "just up the road" from the present community of Bristol.
Bohri Buffalo 44°08′42″N 91°36′10″W
Bissell Kenosha Now part of the village of Bristol.
Bluff Siding[1][4] Buffalo
Calhoun Waukesha
Ceresco Fond du Lac 43°50′55″N 88°51′6″W Aka the Wisconsin Phalanx. 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
Clay Jackson 44°23′46″N 90°40′50″W
Clay Banks[5] Door
Clarence Green 42°35′26″N 89°23′54″W
Clason Prairie Dodge
Cooksville[1][4] Vernon
Coolidge Price 45°48'42"N 90°24'29"W
Cortland Trempealeau 44°12'50"N 91°34'04"W
Corwin Richland 44°20'56"N 91°26'28"W
Cream[1][4] Buffalo aka Eagle Creek
Crusher[4] Dodge
Cypress[3] Kenosha aka Hoadley. There is some confusion as to whether Cypress was a later designator of Pikeville, or geographically distinct.
Delhi[6] Dodge 44°01'22"N 88°48'08"W
Dell Prairie Adams 43°40'02"N 89°42'55"W
Dellwood[4] Adams
De Noon Waukesha and Racine
Dill[2] Adams
Dirty Hollow Iowa 42°57′48″N 90°7′52″W Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville.
Donaldson[4] Vilas
Dodge Corners Waukesha 42°51'32"N 88°14'30"W
Dover Iowa 1844 ca. 1870 43°9'43"N 89°50'21"W Prior to 1851 variously aka Heyworth, Reevesville, East Arena and Ghorstville. Originally established by the British Temperance and Emmigration 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
Grand Chute Outagamie
Granite City Waupaca 44°38'02"N 88°59'28"W
Granite Quarry Waupaca 44°25'02"N 89°04'04"W
Granville Milwaukee 43°10′39″N 88°2′38″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] Iowa aka Old Helena, aka Helena Station
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] Kenosha 42.590271 -88.134038 Aka Klondike. 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 Milwaukee 42°58′19″N 87°55′12″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
Looneyville[1] Houston
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
Menomonee Waukesha
Mill Creek Richland 43.3866706,-90.5527107
Millville[1] Grant
Milwaukee (town) Milwaukee
Minden Winnebago
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
North Milwaukee Milwaukee
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
Pendarvis[1] Iowa
Perote Menominee 45°05′28″N 88°48′46″W
Petersville Waupaca 44°32′18″N 89°11′00″W
Pilot Knob Adams 43.9875038,-89.6355651
Pikeville Corners Kenosha 42.49613 -88.0332206 aka Pikeville. 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.
Pleasant Ridge[2] Grant
Pokerville[4][7] 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
Schultz[2] Green
Sacramento[1] Waushara
Savoy Buffalo 44.523609 -92.058620
Schultz[2] Green
Selma[3] Kenosha aka Sand Ridge
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
Sugar Bush[1] Marinette Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Trow Clark 44°29′30″N 90°45′46″W
Turtleville[2] Rock
Ulao[2] Ozaukee
Valley Vernon
Voree ("Garden of Peace")[1][2] Adams
Wakefield Outagamie 44°15′56.33″N 88°32′13.52″W
Welch Point Iowa 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] Marinette 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 "Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin". website. Rootsweb. August 7, 2010. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin". Wisconsin Public Television. October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Kenosha County WI Placenames". website. Rootsweb. September 8, 2003. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Ghost Towns -- Wisconsin". website. Ghosttowns.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "Ghost Towns #2....The Ghostly Trio.... Foscoro, Clay Banks and Horns Pier". Wisconsinology. April 4, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Ghost Towns #1....Delhi, Wisconsin". Wisconsinology. March 1, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Pokerville, the vanished village is Dane County's earliest town". newspaper article. Wisconsin State Journal. December 6, 1925. Retrieved September 3, 2016.

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