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Visit Shafter, Texas
Shafter is a ghost town in Presidio County, Texas. The Texas Attorney General's Office gives a population of 11 as of the 2000 Census. It was named in honor of General William R. Shafter, who at one point commanded the nearby (relatively speaking) Fort Davis. In the early 1900s, six silver mines were in operation near Shafter. When the mines closed, the town died. It ... -
Visit Shaniko, Oregon
Shaniko is a city located in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, on U.S. Route 97 and about 8 miles (13 km) north of Antelope. The population was 36 at the 2010 census. Shaniko is in Wasco County, in north-central Oregon, at the intersection of U.S. Route 97 and Oregon Route 218. The city is 69 miles (111 km) north of Redmond and 131 miles (211 km) east of Portland. ... -
Off-road to Sierra Mine, Nevada
The Sierra Nevada Mine is a silver mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,402 feet. -
Visit Silver City, Nevada
Silver City is a near ghost town and a small residential community in Lyon County, Nevada, USA, near the Lyon/Carson border. The population as of the 2000 census was 170. Silver City was established in 1859, named for the silver deposits discovered in the area near the Lyon/Carson border. Through this narrow gorge called Gold Canyon, above the historic Devil's Gate ro... -
Visit Silver City, Utah
Silver City is a ghost town located at the mouth of Dragon Canyon on the west flank of the East Tintic Mountains in northeast Juab County in central Utah, United States. It was a silver mining town approximately 90 miles (140 km) south-southwest of Salt Lake City. This area was considered part of the Tintic Mining District and also produced bismuth, copper, gold, and ... -
Visit Silver Lake Cemetery, California
Silver Lake is a town that existed near the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, six miles north of Baker, in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. When the railroad ceased to operate in 1940, the town was abandoned. Couldn't make it to the townsite because of the road being washed out by flash flooding. It is now mostly collapsed buildings and the ceme... -
Visit Silver Reef, Utah
Silver Reef is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of St. George and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Leeds. Silver Reef was established after John Kemple, a prospector from Nevada, discovered a vein of silver in a sandstone formation in 1866. At first, geologists were uncertain about Kemple's find because silver i... -
Visit Silverton, New South Wales, Australia
Silverton is a small village at the far west of New South Wales, Australia, 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of Broken Hill. At the 2016 census, Silverton had a population of 50. The town sprang up after the discovery of rich silver deposits, although it was soon eclipsed by an even richer silver-lead-zinc ore body at nearby Broken Hill. The town is often referred to ... -
Off-road to Skidoo, California
Skidoo lies at an elevation of 5689 feet (1734 m) and is a virtual ghost town located in Death Valley National Park. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Skidoo ghost town has over 1000 mines. Skidoo was famous in the first decade of the 20th century when gold had been found in the area. Within a decade the town had been abandoned, however, and now no st... -
Visit Sodaville, Nevada
Sodaville is an extinct town in Mineral County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. A variant name was "Soda Springs". A post office called Sodaville was established in 1882, and remained in operation until 1917. Initially, a railroad station was intended to be at Sodaville, but an agreement between the railroad and land speculato... -
Visit Spinalonga, Greece
The island of Spinalonga is located in the Gulf of Elounda in north-eastern Crete, in Lasithi, next to the town of Elounda. This unoccupied island is a popular tourist attraction in Crete. In addition to the abandoned leper colony and the fortress, Spinalonga is known for its small pebble beaches and shallow waters. The island can easily be accessed from Elounda and A... -
Visit State Line, Utah
Several stone-walled buildings. Some in ruins. A few others have been fixed up as vacation cabins. -
Visit St. Elmo, Colorado
St. Elmo is a ghost town in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1880, St. Elmo lies in the heart of the Sawatch Range, 20 miles southwest of Buena Vista. Nearly 2,000 people settled in this town when mining for gold and silver became evident. The mining industry started to decline in the early 1920s, and in 1922 the train discontinued service. The comm... -
Hike St. Thomas Trail, Nevada
See the town that was swallowed by Lake Mead in the 1930s! Originally settled by Mormons in 1865, and others in the 1880s, St. Thomas was a thriving community and stopping point between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. A farming town that reached a population of 500 at its peak, St. Thomas boasted a schoolhouse, post office, general store, hotel and even an ice cream p... -
Visit Sulphur, Nevada
Sulphur, Nevada, is a ghost town in Humboldt County, Nevada that was a Feather River Route station in the Black Rock Desert along the Kamma Mountains. A post office was in operation at Sulphur intermittently between 1899 and 1953. The community was named for deposits of sulphur near the original town site.
