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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Missouri. A street in Hamburg, Missouri, 1933. Ark (Dent County) Arlington (Phelps County) Bloodland (Pulaski County)
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
Unlocking the Past by Madeline DeJournett and Elfreda Cox (May 2007) ghost towns in Stoddard County, Missouri. Ghost towns of the American West; Ghost town Gallery;
Ghost towns in Shannon County, Missouri (6 P) Pages in category "Ghost towns in Missouri" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 295 total.
Monark Springs is a ghost town in Newton County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately five miles east of Neosho. The site is on the north bank of Hickory Creek about 1.5 miles east of U.S. Route 60. [2] The spring associated with the town is located within the Hickory Creek floodplain approximately 500 feet to the southeast. [3]
Howell was one of three towns, along with nearby Hamburg and Toonerville, that were evacuated and terminated in 1940–1941 when the area was taken over by the United States Department of the Army for the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works, which manufactured trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene (DNT) and later processed uranium.
Enough is a ghost town in northern Iron County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] It lies near the headwaters of the Big River. [2] The site is now part of Mark Twain National Forest at the south end of Council Bluff Lake, created in 1981. The Forest Service has a boat ramp for the lake at Enough.
The namesake natural spring is gone, and its location is unknown to the GNIS. [3] The former spring had the name of Mathew J. Greene, a pioneer citizen. [2] A post office called Greene Springs was established in 1887, and remained in operation until 1901. [4]