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Ghost Towns of Arizona 

A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned, usually because the economic activity that supported it has failed or because of natural or human- caused disasters.

There are many ghost towns in the American Great Plains, whose rural areas have lost a third of their population since 1920. There are more than 6,000 abandoned sites of settlement in the state of Kansas alone, according to Kansas historian Daniel Fitzgerald. Ghost towns are almost stereotypically common in mining areas: Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, and California in the western United States and West Virginia in the eastern USA. They can be observed as far south as Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. They are also seen in Northern Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, as well as in parts of Australia. Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, such as Central City, Colorado, Aspen, Colorado, Virginia City, Montana, Tombstone, Arizona, Park City, Utah, or Cripple Creek, Colorado are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today.


Other factors leading to abandonment of towns include natural resources such as water no longer being available, railroads and highways bypassing or no longer accessing the town, shifting economic activity elsewhere, human intervention such as highway and river rerouting, and nuclear disasters. Chance significant fatality from epidemics has also produced ghost towns; for example, some places in eastern Arkansas were abandoned after near- total morbidity during the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Here is a large list of Arizona Ghost Towns and the County they are in.

The best website I know of for Ghost Towns is www.ghosttowns.com (but I don't like the music!)