Talk:List of ghost towns in Wisconsin

List of Ghost Towns in the US:Wisconsin redirected here

 * The Wisconsin section of duplicates this list; I've replaced that list with a link to this page.


 * The first footnote reference on this page, to "Wisconsin Historical Society-Odd Wisconsin-Archives-Wisconsin Ghost Town", now 404s.

CNJECulver (talk) 14:37, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Added nearly thirty entries, drawn from http://wpt.org/University-Place/lost-towns-southern-wisconsin.

Progress
CNJECulver (talk) 03:18, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Removed the entry for "Progress". It simply linked to the Wikipedia page for "progress", and a quick google didn't turn up any Wisconsin ghost towns by the name.
 * Added Clay Banks, Foscoro and Horns Pier, information from http://wisconsinology.blogspot.com/2008/04/ghost-towns-2the-ghostly-trio-foscoro.html.
 * Added Cypress and Selma, information from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wikenosh/placenames.htm.
 * Added Apostle Islands, Belmont, Bluff Siding, Cooksville, Cream, Emerson, Fort Crawford, Fort Howard, Knowlton, Looneyville, Millville, Neshonoc, Sacramento, Star Lake, Stonefield, Sugar Bush, Williamsonville, information from http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Egtusa/usa/wi.htm

Redesign and expansion
I've replaced the old bare list with a new table layout with additional information, and have over the past several days expanded the list from 24 to 156 entries. CNJECulver (talk) 06:16, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Inaccuracies
There are a number of places on this list that aren't ghost towns in the sense of "a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20town). If you look at the articles linked to, you'll see that they are not articles about ghost towns:
 * Bay View, Milwaukee is a neighborhood of Milwaukee and not abandoned in any sense.
 * Cudahy, Wisconsin is an incorporated city. The cited source does NOT list Cudahy as a ghost town.
 * Granville, Milwaukee was annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1956 and is a neighborhood of the city.
 * Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954 and is a neighborhood of the city.
 * Milwaukee (town), Wisconsin became a number of incorporated municipalities in northern Milwaukee County, all of which are still heavily inhabited.
 * Pendarvis (Mineral Point, Wisconsin) is a park operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and is part of the community of Mineral Point. The cited source for this one admits that 2500 people live in the area.
 * Ulao, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community where people still live.

I would like to remove these items from the list in the interest of factual accuracy. CoatGuy (talk) 17:19, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Looneyville is listed on this page. The count listed was Houston County, Wisconsin. However, there is no Houston County, Wisconsin. Thank you-RFD (talk) 22:27, 21 March 2020 (UTC)