
Map Submitted by: Sheldon Jones
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Definition of a ghost town: Is a place that has been permanently abandoned by its
inhabitants or whose initial reason for settlement no longer keeps people in the community.
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Bear Point Eastern Locust Grove Prosperity
Beacoup Ewing Mills Long Prairie Rend City
Bessie Fancy Farm Marcy Sadler
Big Muddy Ferber Masters Saint Leland
Bladesburg Fitts Hill McDonald's Mill Sample Hill
Boney Ridge Flatt McGlasson Sheep Ridge
Brayfield Frisco Minor Sneak Out
Browning Frizzell Prairie Mitchell Hill Snowflake
Buck Town Garrett's Prairie Needmore Sophronia
Bug Tussel Greenville New Bush Spring Settlement
Bundy Grisham Old Mulkeytown Steel City
The Cactus Patch Gun Prairie Osage Sweeten
Crawford's Prairie Hickory Ridge Parrish Tallow Fort
Creek Nation Horse Prairie Pickle City Tanner
Crittenden Hull Out Pluckman Taylor Hill
Cuba Jasper Plumfield Tick Ridge
Dering Jordan's Fort Point Out Townmount
Deering City Keller Portland Webb's Hill
The Diggins Linsey Post Oak Webb's Prairie
Dillard Little Muddy Pout Out West Center
Dog Prairie
Downing
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Populations in 1963
Akin...................200 Parrish.................40
Benton...............7,000 Plumfield..............100
Buckner................600 Royalton.............1,225
Christopher..........2,900 Sesser...............1,764
Ewing..................250 Thompsonville..........428
Freeman................406 Urbain..................54
Logan..................286 Valier.................514
Macedonia...............96 West City..............800
Mulkeytown.............255 West Frankfort.......9,000
North City.............400 Whittington............200
Orient.................588 Zeigler..............2,133
Transcribed by: Nanette Riley 2007, 2008 ©Illinois Genealogy Trails History Group
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