List of ghost towns in Wisconsin

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

• 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

• Stark, William F. (1977). Ghost Towns of Wisconsin. Sheboygan: Zimmermann Press. OCLC 3564408.

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