Ghost towns are generally old silver and gold mining towns.
These towns are plentiful in New Mexico. A beautiful web site with an alphabetical list that has information about 59 different ghost towns and other little-known places around New Mexico. Wonderful pictures, statistics, location and a history review. A few of the links below will go to this site, but specifically to the town listed. Alma - Ghost town, seven miles north of Glenwood via U.S. 180.