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List of ghost towns in Washington

List of ghost towns in Washington

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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Washington, a state of the United States.

Classification

The school swimming pool is the most distinctive element left at Fairfax.

Barren site

  • 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
Rotting buildings in Bodie

Neglected site

  • Only rubble left
  • All buildings uninhabited
  • Roofless building ruins
  • Some buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless
Abandoned schoolhouse in Govan

Abandoned site

  • 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
United Brethren Church, one of the few standing structures left in Elberton

Semi-abandoned site

  • Building or houses still standing
  • Buildings and houses largely abandoned
  • few residents
  • many abandoned buildings
  • Small population
Buildings preserved at Liberty

Historic community

  • Building or houses still standing
  • Still a busy community
  • Smaller than its boom years
  • Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less.

List of towns

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Ruth Kirk and Carmela Alexander (1995). Exploring Washington's Past (Revised ed.). Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97443-5.
  2. [2]
    Wallace, Elizan M. (1906). "Alpine, the Deserted Village". An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties. Interstate Publishing Company. pp. 469-470.
  3. [3]
    "Remnants of the Gold Rush Litter This Washington Ghost Town".
  4. [4]
    Weis, Norman D. (1971). Ghost Towns of the Northwest. Caldwell, Idaho, USA: Caxton Press. ISBN 0-87004-358-7.
  5. [5]
    Emmett O'Connell (October 9, 2013). "Bordeaux, Washington – Last Remnants of a Thurston County Ghost Town". Thurston Talk.
  6. [6]
    "Bordeaux, Washington". Atlas Obscura.
  7. [7]
    "Plat Map of Penawawa, (1910). Plat Book of Whitman County Washington". Anderson Map Company. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
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