Originally published at: Consult this map of ghost towns before you embark on your next road trip | Boing Boing
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I’d like it a lot more if it showed the ghost town locations on a map.
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Not sure if I am missing something but it only gives the count of the towns not the names/locations. Hidden button somwhere?
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Kansas
308 ghost towns
Shawnee County contains the most, with 10. There are 20 ghost towns within 25 miles of Lawrence.
Wow, almost as many as California…
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Infuriatingly poorly designed. They imply there’s lots of data but only allow you to see a tiny slice of it. It’s a top 10 list with a US map and 50 data points and a bunch of dots. None of it gives you any valuable data unless you’ve never ever read another article on US Ghost towns.
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If you go to the very bottom, there are links to their list of sources.
But yeah, that site makes me irrationally angry.
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I think this might describe our collective engagement with the current iteration of the internet…
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How about a list of abandoned amusement parks? If you’re looking for supervillains or scheming old property owners dressed as spooks they’re where the action is.
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What about a list of supposedly abandoned amusement parks!
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A lot of what you’re looking for and can’t find on that page is probably here:
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Thank you. I think that also clarifies a bit about what they’re terming a ghost town. In at least the two examples with which I’m immediately familiar, they’re locations where a community of sorts once was, but now isn’t. One is an intersection with a gas station and a home, the other has been absorbed into a larger city, although there’s a nice seasonal nursery / farmer’s market there now.
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Except for Illinois (and others, maybe, I dunno).
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I followed that to the wiki list for Wisconsin and clicked the GPS links for multiple ghost towns and there was less than nothing in the satellite photos. So I went from being mad at the original link to being mad at the wiki page. I prefer my ghost towns like I prefer my ghosts: at least slightly visible.
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My thought exactly. What use is a map that shows approximate locations but no detail? I suppose I’ll drive around rural King County looking for sixteen giant black and grey dots.
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Absolutely infuriating. In what universe did someone think this site is even remotely useful? What in heaven’s name makes this a good idea??? “We’re gonna tell you there are a bunch of ghost towns out there but when you click to actually try to find out … nawww we’re not gonna tell you anything AT ALL.” Nasty trick. Just makes me rage hate the internet even more.
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