Name
|
Other names
|
County
|
Township
|
Settled
|
Abandoned
|
Current status
|
Remarks
|
Acme
|
|
Westmoreland /
Fayette counties
|
Donegal,
Mount Pleasant (Westmoreland)
Bullskin (Fayette)
|
|
|
|
[4]
|
Aitch
|
|
Huntingdon County
|
|
1887
|
|
Submerged
|
submerged to form
Raystown Lake.
[5]
|
Alice
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
East Huntingdon Township
|
|
|
|
[4]
|
Alvira
|
Wisetown
|
Union County
|
Gregg Township
|
|
|
|
[6]
|
Andrico
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
|
|
|
[7]
[4]
|
Antwerp
|
|
Clarion County
|
Richland Township
|
|
|
|
[8]
|
Appalacha
|
|
Indiana County
|
White Township
|
|
|
|
[9]
|
Aqueduct
|
|
Indiana County
|
West Wheatfield Township
|
|
|
|
[4]
|
Ardara
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
North Huntingdon Township
|
|
|
|
|
Armerford
|
|
Indiana County
|
East Wheatfield Township
|
|
|
|
Lies along the
Ghost Town Trail in
East Wheatfield Township in
Indiana County.
[10]
|
Arroyo
|
|
Elk County
|
Spring Creek Township
|
|
|
|
|
Bagdad
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Allegheny Township
|
|
|
|
[11]
|
Bairdstown
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
|
|
|
[12]
|
Barclay
|
|
Bradford County
|
Franklin Township
|
|
|
|
|
Bells Mills
|
|
Indiana County
|
Blacklick Township
|
|
|
|
|
Bennington
|
|
Cambria/
Blair County
|
Allegheny Township
|
|
|
|
[13]
|
Beula
|
|
Cambria County
|
|
1796
|
1804
|
|
Welsh religious ghost town.
[14]
|
Big Creek Valley
|
|
Carbon County
|
|
|
1966
|
Submerged
|
Submerged to form
Beltzville Lake.
[15]
|
Big Run
|
|
Elk County
|
|
|
|
|
[16]
|
Billmeyer
|
Billmyer
[17]
|
Lancaster County
|
|
|
|
|
[18]
|
Birdsboro
|
|
Berks County
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
A historic
borough that, while still hosting several thousand residents, has sharply declined from its previous prosperity.
[19]
|
Blairfour
|
|
Blair County
|
|
|
|
|
The site of a
quarry for
Blair Limestone Company.
[20]
|
Blue Rock
|
|
Elk County
|
|
|
|
|
Along the
Clarion-Little Toby Trail, connected to
Ellmont, another ghost town, by the local landmark
Blue Rock Swinging Bridge.
[21]
|
Bracken
|
|
Indiana County
|
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town[
citation needed] along the
Ghost Town Trail.
[10]
|
Braddock
|
|
Allegheny County
|
N/A
|
|
|
Semi-abandoned
|
Notorious for its crumbling infrastructure and "post-apocalyptic" appearance.
[22]
|
Brownsville
|
|
Fayette County
|
N/A
|
|
|
Historic
|
[23]
|
Buena Vista
|
|
Indiana County
|
Brush Valley Township
|
|
|
|
|
Byrnesville
|
|
Columbia County
|
Conyngham Township
|
|
|
|
|
Cardiff
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Located along the
Ghost Town Trail
[24]
[25]
|
Celestia
|
|
Sullivan County
|
|
|
1887
|
|
A religious community of
Millennialists.
[26]
|
Centralia
|
|
Columbia County
|
|
|
|
Semi-abandoned
|
a coal mining ghost town, where a fire has been burning underground for years
|
Cereal
|
Lindencross
|
Westmoreland County
|
North Huntingdon Township
|
|
|
|
Was a major location for
breakfast cereal production plants starting in 1904 until the factories closed for good in the 1940s.
[27]
|
Chester
|
Humphries
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
1644
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town, often known as Humphries after the owner of the mine.
[28]
|
Claghorn
|
|
Indiana County
|
East Wheatfield Township
|
|
|
|
Along the
Ghost Town Trail
|
Cokeville
|
Broad Fording
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
|
|
Submerged
|
a
Pennsylvania Canal & coal mining ghost town, under the waters of
Conemaugh River Lake.
[29]
|
Cold Spring
|
|
Lebanon County
|
Cold Spring Township
|
|
|
|
A
township that has not had any staff or budget in the
municipal government since the 1960s.
[30]
|
Concrete City
|
|
Luzerne County
|
|
|
|
Historic
|
[31]
|
Corduroy
|
|
Elk County
|
Highland Township
|
|
|
|
Located on the
Clarion River near
Rushland.
[32]
|
Corydon
|
|
McKean County
|
Corydon Township
|
|
|
Submerged
|
Flooded by
Allegheny Reservoir
|
Cressonville
|
|
Schuylkill County
|
|
|
|
|
[33]
|
Crum
|
Crumb, Crumtown
|
Somerset County
|
|
Before 1833
|
1926
|
Neglected
|
Almost all of the buildings in Crum were bought out in the late 1920s by the
Berwind Corporation to keep pollution out of their watershed.
[34]
|
Crunkleton
|
|
Franklin County
|
|
1772
|
|
Barren
|
a colonial hamlet between
Greencastle and
Waynesboro.
[35]
|
Dahoga
|
|
Elk County
|
Jones Township
|
|
|
|
|
Dias
|
|
Indiana County
|
Brush Valley Township
|
|
|
|
A coal town on the
Ghost Town Trail.
[36]
|
Dilltown
|
|
Indiana County
|
Buffington Township
|
|
|
|
Once an important commerce center, now sparsely populated.
[37]
|
Dunbar
|
Frogtown
|
Fayette County
|
N/A
|
|
|
Historic
|
[38]
[39]
|
East Fork Road District
|
|
Potter County
|
|
|
|
Absorbed
|
|
Eckley
|
|
Luzerne County
|
Foster Township
|
|
|
Historic
|
a coal mining ghost town, now a coal mining museum
|
Edgerton
|
|
Lackawanna County
|
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[40]
|
Edri
|
|
Indiana County
|
Conemaugh Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[41]
|
Eleanora
|
|
Jefferson County
|
McCalmont Township
|
|
|
|
A coal and coke company town.
[42]
|
Ellmont
|
|
Elk County/
Jefferson County
|
|
|
|
|
a logging town famous for a
rope bridge,
Blue Rock Swinging Bridge, which connects it to another ghost town,
Blue Rock.
[43]
|
Empire
|
|
Elk County
|
|
|
|
|
a logging town with a
railroad tunnel.[
citation needed]
|
Eriton
|
|
Clearfield County
|
Sandy Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[44]
|
Fairbanks
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Loyalhanna Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[45]
|
Ferrier
|
|
Indiana County
|
Brush Valley Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[46]
|
Fillmore
|
|
Indiana County
|
Blacklick Township
|
|
|
Submerged
|
Formerly along the banks of the
Conemaugh River, submerged under the waters of Conemaugh River Lake after construction of the
Conemaugh Dam.
[47]
|
Fort Palmer
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Fairfield Township
|
1771
|
|
|
[48]
[49]
|
Foster
|
|
Indiana County
|
Conemaugh Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[41]
|
Foxtown
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Hempfield Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town.
[50]
|
French Azilum
|
|
Bradford County
|
|
1793
|
|
|
|
Freytown
|
|
Lackawanna County
|
|
|
|
|
[51]
|
Frick's Lock
|
|
Chester County
|
East Coventry Township
|
|
|
|
|
Frogtown
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Salem Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town
[52]
|
Gold Mine
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[53]
|
Grays Run
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
An obscure logging town.
[54]
|
Greenwood Furnace
|
|
Huntingdon County
|
Jackson Township
|
|
|
|
Formerly home to a booming
iron industry, the town declined after new techniques rendered its facilities obsolete.
[55]
|
Hart Town
|
|
Indiana County
|
Young Township
|
|
|
|
Once a coal mining town, the mines at Hart Town had closed by the start of
World War II.
[56]
|
Hazel Hurst
|
|
McKean County
|
|
|
|
|
Once an important
glass production town with multiple factories, all of which are now closed.
[54]
|
Helvetia
|
|
Clearfield County
|
Brady Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town
|
Hicks Run
|
|
Cameron County
|
|
1904
|
1912
|
Barren
|
A logging town located near
Route 555 in
Driftwood.
[54]
|
Holbrook
|
|
Greene County
|
|
|
|
Abandoned
|
Although the greater Holbrook area still has residents, the village proper is almost entirely abandoned.
[57]
|
Horatio
|
|
Jefferson County
|
Young Township
|
|
|
|
coal mining ghost town
|
Huron
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Salem Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[58]
|
Ingleby
|
Fowler
|
Centre County
|
Haines Township
|
|
|
|
|
Instanter
|
|
Elk County
|
|
|
|
Submerged
|
under the waters of
East Branch Lake.
[59]
|
Johnetta
|
|
Armstrong County
|
Gilpin Township
|
|
|
|
a brick works & coal mining ghost town
|
Joller
|
|
Huntingdon County
|
|
1916
|
1979
|
Barren
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[60]
|
Kelly's Station
|
Tunnelton
[61]
|
Indiana County
|
Conemaugh Township
|
|
|
|
Former town along the
Conemaugh River
[61]
|
Kinzua
|
|
Warren County
|
|
|
1963
|
|
see also
Kinzua Creek
|
Lackawanna No. 3
|
|
Indiana County
|
Buffington Township
|
|
|
|
Located along the
Ghost Town Trail.
[62]
|
Landrus
|
|
Tioga County
|
|
|
|
|
An early pioneer of using electricity in
logging camps, Landrus disappeared after the railroad was redirected through a different town.
[54]
[63]
|
Laquin
|
|
Bradford County
|
Franklin Township
|
1902
|
|
|
Once a booming lumber town.
[54]
|
Laurel Run
|
|
Luzerne County
|
N/A
|
|
|
Semi-abandoned
|
Has experienced a sharp decline in residents due to the contamination caused by the
Laurel Run mine fire, which started in 1915 and is still burning.
|
Lausanne
|
Lausanne Landing
|
Carbon County
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lily Pond
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
An extremely small logging town on the Clarion River.
[32]
|
Livermore
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
|
|
Submerged
|
a
Pennsylvania Canal ghost town under the waters of
Conemaugh River Lake
|
Loop
|
|
Indiana County
|
West Mahoning Township
|
|
|
|
an
iron furnace & coal mining ghost town
|
Marburg
|
|
|
|
|
|
Submerged
|
Submerged under
Lake Marburg.
[64]
|
Marietta
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Ligonier Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town
[65]
|
Masten
|
|
Lycoming County
|
|
|
|
|
|
McIntyre
|
|
Lycoming County
|
McIntyre Township
|
|
|
|
|
McKinley
|
|
Elk County
|
Highland Township
|
|
|
|
a logging/oil drilling ghost town.
[66]
|
Meco
|
|
Indiana County
|
Brush Valley Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town
[67]
|
Middletown
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Located on the
Clarion River between
Corduroy and
Rushland.
[32]
|
Milford Mills
|
|
|
|
|
|
Submerged
|
flooded by creation of
Marsh Creek Lake
|
Millwood Shaft
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
|
|
|
[68]
|
Nebraska
|
|
Forest County
|
|
|
|
|
[69]
|
Nelsonville
|
|
Elk County
|
|
|
|
|
[70]
|
Nemacolin
|
|
Greene County
|
Cumberland Township
|
|
|
|
Formerly the site of the
Buckeye Coal Mine.
[71]
|
New England
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
|
1900
|
1932
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[72]
|
Newport
|
|
Indiana County
|
Blacklick Township
|
Before
colonization
(possibly 8,000 years bce)
|
1820s
|
Barren/historic
|
A former
Native American settlement. In 2019,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania students of
archaeology began
excavation at the site.
[73]
|
Newtown Mills
|
|
Forest County
|
Kingsley Township
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Norwich
|
|
McKean County
|
|
|
|
|
A town that once housed 5,000 residents.
[54]
|
Old Patton (Wakena)
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Bell Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Owl's Nest
|
|
Elk County
|
Highland Township
|
|
|
|
a logging/oil drilling ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Pandamonia
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Peale
|
|
Clearfield County
|
Cooper Township
|
|
|
|
coal mining ghost town
|
Pemberton
|
|
Huntingdon County
|
Franklin Township
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Petroleum Center
|
|
Venango County
|
Cornplanter Township
|
|
|
|
|
Pig’s Ear
|
|
Elk County
|
Highland Township
|
|
|
Semi-abandoned
|
an oil drilling ghost town
|
Pithole
|
|
Venango County
|
Cornplanter Township
|
|
|
|
an oil drilling ghost town
|
Poe Mills
|
|
Centre County
|
|
|
|
|
A former logging town, now the site of
Poe Paddy State Park.
[74]
|
Port Perry
|
|
Allegheny County
|
North Versailles Township
|
|
1945
|
|
|
Powelton
|
|
Centre County
|
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Powelton
|
|
Huntingdon County
|
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Quaker Bridge
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Rattling Run
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[53]
|
Rausch Gap
|
|
Lebanon County
|
Cold Spring Township
|
|
|
|
|
Red Hot
|
|
Allegheny County
|
West Deer Township
|
|
|
|
Along Saxonburg Boulevard
|
Red Shaft
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Ricketts
|
|
Sullivan/
Wyoming counties
|
Colley (Sullivan)
Forkston (Wyoming)
|
|
|
|
|
Robindale
|
|
Indiana County
|
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Rushland
|
Sackett, Rush Valley
|
Bucks County
|
Wrightstown Township
|
1730
|
|
|
Most famous for the old
Rushland station.
[75]
|
Safe Harbor
|
|
Lancaster County
|
Conestoga Township
|
|
|
|
See also
Safe Harbor Dam.
[76]
|
Salemville
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Salem Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town.
[52]
|
Scotia
|
|
Centre County
|
Patton Township
|
|
1922-1923
|
|
A mining town.
[77]
|
Scott Glenn
|
|
Indiana County
|
East Wheatfield Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town along the
Ghost Town Trail.[
citation needed]
|
Shanktown
|
|
Indiana County
|
Green Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Shawmut
|
|
Elk County
|
Horton Township
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Sidney
|
|
Indiana County
|
Banks Township
|
|
|
|
Located at
Bear Run.
[78]
|
Silverton
|
|
Schuylkill County
|
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Sligo
|
|
Allegheny County
|
Harrison Township
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Smokeless (Robindale)
|
|
Indiana County
|
East Wheatfield Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Snyder
|
|
Indiana County
|
Center Township
|
|
|
|
A mining town.
[79]
|
Snydertown
|
|
Westmoreland County
|
Derry Township
|
|
|
|
[80]
|
Social Hall
|
|
|
|
|
|
Submerged
|
under the waters of
Conemaugh River Lake.
[47]
|
Somerfield
|
|
Somerset County
|
|
|
1943
|
Submerged
|
under the waters of
Youghiogheny River Lake, but in 1999 receding water levels began to reveal parts of the town.
[81]
|
Sonesville
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
An obscure logging town.
[54]
|
Straight
|
|
Elk County
|
|
|
|
Submerged
|
under the waters of
East Branch Lake.
[82]
|
Stringtown
|
|
Greene County
|
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Tambine
|
|
Elk County
|
Jones Township
|
|
|
|
[
citation needed]
|
Tartown
|
Wagamansville
|
Adams County
|
|
|
|
|
[83]
|
Three Mile
|
|
Elk County
|
Highland Township
|
|
|
|
oil drilling ghost town.[
citation needed]
|
Tohickon Village
|
|
Bucks County
|
|
|
|
Submerged
|
under the waters of
Lake Nockamixon
|
Walston
|
|
Jefferson County
|
Young Township
|
|
|
|
A coal company
patch town.
[84]
|
Webster
|
|
Indiana County
|
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town along the
Ghost Town Trail.[
citation needed]
|
Wehrum
|
|
Indiana County
|
Buffington Township
|
|
1934
|
|
coal mining ghost town
|
Wenona
|
|
Allegheny County
|
Forward Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
West Overton
|
|
|
|
|
|
Historic
|
[85]
|
West Winfield
|
|
Butler County
|
Winfield Township
|
|
|
|
A former company town which once housed a
rail station.
[86]
|
Whiskey Run
|
|
Indiana County
|
Young Township
|
|
|
|
A coal mining ghost town famous for multiple unsolved murders.
[56]
|
White Rock
|
|
Armstrong County
|
Gilpin Township
|
|
|
|
a coal mining ghost town[
citation needed]
|
Wilmer
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[25]
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Wilsonville
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Submerged
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flooded to create
Lake Wallenpaupack
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Windy City
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Elk County
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Highland Township
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[
citation needed]
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Wistar
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Elk County
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[70]
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Yellow Dog Village
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Armstrong County
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Early 2010s
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Historic/neglected
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[31]
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Yellow Springs
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Lebanon County
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[53]
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Zanmore
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Clinton County
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[
citation needed]
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