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List of ghost towns in Michigan
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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Michigan.
Classification
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- Barren site
- Sites no longer in existence
- Sites that have been destroyed
- Submerged
- Reverted to pasture
- May have a few difficult-to-find foundations/footings at most
- Neglected site
- Only rubble left
- All buildings uninhabited
- Roofless building ruins
- Some buildings or houses still standing
- Abandoned site
- Buildings 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)
- Semiabandoned site
- Building or houses still standing
- Buildings and houses largely abandoned
- Fewer than 50 residents (small population)
- Many abandoned buildings
- 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
- May now be a census designated place
- May have been "absorbed" by extant entity
List
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bunting, Robert L. (October 31, 2007). Into Oblivion (Hardcover). Robert McGreevy, Illustrator (1st ed.). Black River Trading Company. ISBN 978-0979749209.
- ^ https://99wfmk.com/amble-michigan/
- ^ Romig, Walter (1986). Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities (Great Lakes Books Series). Wayne State University Press. p. 26.
- ^ "Aral". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Aral". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.>https://www.nps.gov/places/000/aral-a-town-that-vanished.htm
- ^ "Gibbs City - Atkinson". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Baltic". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ a b "Bertrand". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Brookside". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Butternut". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Central". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Ghost Towns of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from the copper mining of the 1800s". exploringthenorth.com. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Copper Falls Mine". Ghost Town. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Fiborn Quarry
- ^ "Where Is Omard? – Omard, Michigan". omard.info. April 12, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Romig, Walter (1986). Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities (Great Lakes Books Series). Wayne State University Press. p. 415.
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