Ghost Town Directory

Oklahoma ghost towns

Towns
5
Counties
5

All Oklahoma ghost towns

  1. 01AlluweNowata County3 min readEastern Delaware settlers founded Alluwe, Oklahoma, in 1869 and named it for the word meaning superior. In the 1950s, Oologah Lake covered the town entirely.
  2. 02AmericaMcCurtain County3 min readAmerica, Oklahoma was named for America Stewart in 1903. Sawmill boomtown from 1907, pivoted to cotton in 1911. Post office closed Valentine Day 1944.
  3. 03AveryLincoln County3 min readIn 1907, workers at Avery, Oklahoma, loaded 125 cattle cars in a single day. Oil fields, the Model T, war, and worn-out soil ended the town's shipping boom.
  4. 04Beer CityTexas County3 min readBeer City, Oklahoma was a ghost town in No Man's Land where Pussy Cat Nell ran the Yellow Snake Saloon until the 1890 Organic Act ended its lawless run.
  5. 05CatesbyEllis County4 min readCatesby, Oklahoma, shrank from a 1902 post office town to just two reported residents by its 2002 centennial, reportedly the smallest townsite in the state.