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Them are some nice pictures.  I got a question about ghost towns, since you are hunting at one there.

Once they are considered ghost towns, do the towns name be wiped off the map? Because, I look at some old maps of Missouri, and I have noticed three townships.  These three townships, as I compared it to a present map, no longer exist.  Would you consider those ghost towns?

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As far as I know, the old forgotten areas that held buildings are considered ghosttowns.  The town I'm searching for seems to go by two names...Harliss, MN or Harliss Township, MN.  Townships had at least a main townhall and then however many buildings nearby.  I'm still very much a beginner at this, maybe other "veterans" of ghosttown hunting can help us out. I'm definately hitting the local historical societies this winter, when I can't be out detecting.
There is a really cool spot in another town (Hastings,MN) that had 1 of 2 State Hospitals (sanitariums) and I found the original grounds that it housed some of the cottages on. Found the old sidewalks and an old galvanized-pipe fence in concrete in the woods nearby. My son & I want to go back, it's now a park, but lots of the original layout, curved main entrance driveway/road is still there. I earthgoogled the spot and it has potential. I just need to find an old pic or aerialview of where all the buldings were. Very cool stuff!

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metalinspector;

I know from genealogy digging, that county lines change, railway lines change, towns disappear, for many reasons, as well as new ones appear.

Most of the county line changing could be political, because the vote changes, others have industrial/personal/opportunistic/financial/entrepreneurial changes. Something as simple as a rail spur closing, can cause a small town to crater.

I  keep thinking, every time I read about ghost towns, on the forum, thinking of Saskatchewan, Canada... there are hundreds of little prairie towns that have died, some right on the main highway, too. Yet some have a couple of residents or are getting new residents.... but the ones that never had a chance to recover, have potential for us THers.

Quite often the reason is a one industry town that has lost its industry, like Cassiar, BC, which was built around asbestos mining. It is in the middle of the boondocks anyway. There may still be some residents, in that one, it was too modern to abandon., totally.

And the plot thickens..... er.... was that: the thought plickens?

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metal_inspector;

It could be railway related or coal related, like the closing of a mine, perhaps they are sitting right there??

How about Grand Coulee, in Missouri. My gramma lived there as a child; its under water, now. I believe there are some small towns in BC that went under water, as well, in the Arrow Lakes system.

I have maps that show towns that NEVER existed, because a railway was never built. Over in Alberta, they had the habit of naming every township ever surveyed, so there was a new name, every 6 miles. A township, here, is 6 miles on each side for a square of 36 sqare miles, then Canada went metric! Most of these township towns never developed or only had a local hall for community get-togethers.

My grandpa homesteaded, in 1910, at Huallen, Alberta, (named for Hugh Allen, one-time premier of Alberta,) which never existed as a town OR a community, my father went to a rural German school, there, (but did not speak nor learn German,) they lived, for a while at Halcourt, which had a hall, no store, no post office, no school, later, they lived at Beaverlodge, which became the center for all these homesteaders.

Beaverlodge is still there, all the little places, that never really existed, are gone. Last time I was by Halcourt, somebody rebuilt the old hall into a home. I can point out dozens of instances, like this, in Alberta, but only a few in my area, does that mean BC is more stable, I doubt it. Its just the way history rook place. 

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metal_inspector;

One sure has to watch these  names, I almost used metal_detector....

I watched a documentary on Great Lakes ghost towns, in Ontario, ones that never had a road, other than a railroad, because the lake handled all freight  and personal travel. 

It changed, and now there is Port this and Port that, just foundations.... if they used cement. You have to have a boat to access them, but they would be great hunting!

I am not a water person..... however, I do want a small airboat.

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