# List of ghost towns in North Dakota

Several ghost towns have been recorded in North Dakota and are in various states of disrepair; some are mostly intact but have no residents, while others have completely barren or inaccessible sites. Other communities might have a small population but are frequently referred to as a ghost town due to population decline and disrepair.

## Classification
### 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

### Semi-abandoned site

* Building or houses still standing
* Buildings and houses largely abandoned
* Fewer than 50 residents
* Many abandoned buildings
* Small population

## Ghost towns

| Name | County | Settled | Abandoned | Status | Notes |
| Alfred | LaMoure | | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Amidon | Slope | 1910 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Appam | Williams | 1916 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Arena | Burleigh | 1906 | 1996 | Abandoned | |
| Aurelia | Ward | | | Abandoned | |
| Baden | Ward | | | Barren | |
| Beaver Creek | Williams | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Belden | Mountrail | 1904 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Bentley | Hettinger | 1910 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Brisbane | Grant | 1906 | | Barren | |
| Carbury | Bottineau | 1901 | c. 2000 | Abandoned | |
| Bucyrus | Adams | 1908 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Charbonneau | McKenzie | | c.1960 | Abandoned | |
| Charging Eagle | Dunn | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Cleveland | Stutsman | 1882 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Clyde | Cavalier | 1905 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Dengate | Morton | | | | |
| Dogtooth | Grant | 1876 | c. 1911 | Barren | |
| Elbowoods | McLean | 1889 | 1954 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Epworth | Mountrail | | | | |
| Fort Buford | Williams | 1866 | 1895 | Abandoned | U.S. Army fort |
| Freda | Grant | 1910 | c. 1975 | Neglected | |
| Gascoyne | Bowman | 1911 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Gorham | Billings | c. 1899 | 1972 | Abandoned | |
| Hample | Sargent | | | Barren | |
| Hartland | Ward | 1907 | 1966 | | |
| Heaton | Wells | 1895 | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Independence | Dunn | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Ives | Bowman | | | Barren | |
| Kenaston | Ward | | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Keystone | Dickey | | | | |
| Kongsberg | McHenry | | | Abandoned | |
| Leipzig | Grant | 1896 | 1910 | Barren | |
| Lonetree | Ward | | | | |
| Lucky Butte | | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Lynwood | Morton | | | Barren | |
| McKinney | Renville | | | | |
| Mose | Griggs | 1889 | 1943 | Barren | |
| Mt. Carmel | | | | | |
| Nishu | | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Old Fort Rice | Morton | 1864 | 1878 | Abandoned | United States Military fort |
| Old Sanish | | c.1915 | 1953 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Omemee | Bottineau | 1887 | c. 1990s | Neglected | |
| Petrel | Adams | 1908 | | Barren | |
| Pierce | Burleigh | | c. 1970's | Barren | Small community east of Bismarck, but got replaced by Lincoln. It is now reverted to pasture. |
| Red Butte | | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Roseglen | McLean | | | Semi-abandoned | |
| Sanger | Oliver | 1879 | 1985 | Barren | |
| Schafer | McKen-zie | | | Neglected | |
| Schmidt | Morton | | | Barren | |
| Shell Creek | | | c. 1955 | Barren | Submerged under Lake Sakakawea |
| Sherbrooke | Steele | 1884 | circa 1920 | Neglected | Abandoned after the county seat moved from it to Finley, North Dakota, in 1919. |
| Sims | Morton | 1883 | | Semi-abandoned | Sims still has an active church, but nobody lives there anymore |
| Sully Springs | Billings | c. 1880 | c. 1939 | Barren | Railroad town abandoned during the Great Depression |
| Tagus | Mountrail | 1900 | 2001 | Semi-abandoned | |
| Temple | Williams | 1906 | c. 1965 | Neglected | |
| Temvik | Emmons | 1904 | 2000 | | |
| Three V Crossing | Slope | 1883 | 1910 | Barren | Now a ranch, but used to be home to a post office, a general store, and a stagecoach stop. |
| Ukraina | Billings | c. 1906 | c. 1949 | Neglected | Only two cemeteries left |
| Verendrye | McHenry | 1912 | 1970 | Neglected | |
| Wabek | Mountrail | | | Abandoned | |
| Watrous | Hettinger | 1910 | | Neglected | |
| Wheelock | Williams | 1902 | c. 1996 | Semi-abandoned | |
| White Butte | Slope | | | Abandoned | This is talking about the abandoned town, White Butte, not the mountain. |
| Whitman | Nelson | | | Semi-abandoned | |