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This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wyoming.

Classification

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

Neglected site

Only rubble left
Roofless building ruins
Buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless

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

Semi abandoned site

Building or houses still standing
Buildings and houses largely abandoned
few residents
many abandoned buildings
Small population

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.

Table

Name	Other names	County	Location	Settled	Abandoned	Current status	Remarks
Alva		Crook County				Semi-abandoned
Antelope Flats				1893	1912	Neglected	^[1]
Atlantic City		Fremont County		1868		Semi-abandoned	^[2]
Baker Town		Crook County	East of Aladdin^[3]
Barrett Town		Crook County	West of Aladdin^[3]
Battle		Carbon County		July 3, 1778			^[4]
Bear River City	Beartown^[3]	Uinta County	Approximately 10 miles southeast of Evanston, WY	1867^[3]
Bear Rock				1906
Benton				July to September 1868			^[2]
Bessemer				1888
Bosler		Albany County		1900^[1]
Bryan		Sweetwater County		September 1868
Buckhorn				1900
Buford		Albany County
Cambria		Weston County		1889	1928
Canyon Springs							^[5]
Carbon		Carbon County		1868^[3]		Abandoned

Carter		Uinta County		December 27, 1867
Clifton				1907
Cumberland		Lincoln County		1900


Eadsville				1891^[4]
Empire		Goshen County^[6]		1908
Forest City
Fort Laramie		Goshen County		1834		Historic	^[7]
Fort Steele							^[2]
Gebo		Hot Springs County
Hecla		Laramie County
Horton
Jay Em		Goshen County					^[1]
Jeffrey City		Fremont County
Jireh							A planned college town that never took off.^[1]
Kane		Big Horn County
Kirwin		Park County				Historic^[4]
Linwood		Daggett County	On the Wyoming-Utah state line
Lewiston							^[2]
Lost Springs		Converse County
Manhattan
Mineral Hill		Crook County		1930s^[3]
Miner's Delight		Fremont County		1867^[1]
Moskee							^[2]
Pacific Springs							^[2]
Piedmont	Byrne^[4]	Uinta County
Point of Rocks		Sweetwater County					^[1]
Rocky Ford
Sage		Lincoln County
South Pass City		Fremont County				Semi-abandoned
Sherman		Albany County
Spencer
Sunrise		Platte County
Table Rock		Sweetwater County		Late 1970s	2010	Barren
Tubb Town		Weston County
Upton		Weston County				Historic^[1]
Van Tassell		Niobrara County
Walcott		Carbon County					^[2]
Welcome		Crook County	Nearby to Mineral Hill Wyoming^[3]
Whoop-Up							^[5]

Notes and references

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "The Truly Grim Reality Of 11 Deserted Ghost Towns In Wyoming". OnlyInYourState®. June 14, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Weis, Norman D. (1971). Ghost Towns of the Northwest. Caldwell, Idaho, USA: Caxton Press. ISBN 0-87004-358-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Miller, Donald (1977). Ghost Towns of Wyoming. Pruett. ISBN 0871085119.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "7 Wyoming Ghost Towns You Need to Explore". travelwyoming.com.
^ ^a ^b Hafnor, John. Black Hills Believables: Strange-but-true Tales of the Old West. Fort Collins, Colorado: Lone Pine Productions, 2002. 54. Web. 8 Aug. 2013.
^ "Empire Wyoming (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
^ Lee, Mariska (October 25, 2020). "5 Best Ghost Towns in Wyoming". Van Life Wanderer. Retrieved May 23, 2023.