Many or most buildings have now been demolished the last operating business, Gary Linderman's Old Miner's Pharmacy, closed in 2015. Lead-mining towns Picher, Treece and Cardin were already in the process of being abandoned due to lead contamination and mine shafts undermining the town site when an EF4 tornado swept in 2008, leaving a mile-wide swath of devastation which was never repaired. As of 2020, five residents and many empty streets remain. Demolished due to an underground mine fire, which was ignited in 1962 and has been burning ever since. Man-made disaster Abandoned houses of Kayaköy, after a population exchange due to a treaty Environmental However, the settlement was never resumed, and the well-preserved ghost village is now a museum. After a dike was completed to close off the connection of the Zuiderzee with the open sea, the water around Schokland was drained off in 1942 and it was made a part of the mainland. The island village had to be evacuated in 1859, as more and more of the island's clay was eaten up by the stormy waters of the Zuiderzee. The ruins have been preserved as a memorial park and a museum has been set up nearby. Qushan, the former county seat of Beichuan County in China's Sichuan Province was abandoned following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.Similarly, many other towns in the Belice Valley including Gibellina, Vita, Santa Margherita di Belice and Salaparuta were rebuilt at locations some distance away from the original towns. After the quake, a new Poggioreale was built at a location supposedly safer from future earthquakes about 4 km to the south, leaving the old one as a ghost town.
Natural disasters Plymouth, capital of Montserrat Some ghost towns have been used as motion picture sets, and become destinations of fiction tourism. Examples would include towns entirely flooded by hydroelectric development or wilfully demolished, if no traces remain of the former village. Once no physical evidence remains, a settlement is typically removed from lists of ghost towns. Regardless of location, some ghost towns (or older parts of them) are archaeological sites. While legal consequences for trespassing are improbable in many of these locations, the leave-no-trace principle remains vital so that subsequent travellers may view these sites without key pieces being damaged, removed or buried in rubbish. While some ghost towns have been partially restored and commercialised as tourist traps, many more are in remote or awkward locations where the abandoned buildings are left to be slowly reclaimed by the elements. Occasionally a village can avoid becoming a ghost town by finding a new vocation to replace a dying industry, but this becomes substantially more difficult if the town site is far off the beaten path. A mining town is abandoned once too little ore remains to be profitable, a railway town is abandoned once the train no longer stops, a manufacturing town is abandoned when its last factory closes. More commonly, ghost towns quietly appear when the reason for the town's creation no longer exists. Some ghost towns might have a handful of permanent inhabitants hospitality staff, researchers, or inhabitants who never left.Ī few ghost towns are part of exclusion zones due to man-made or natural disasters. It is usually implied to have enough remaining or partially remaining buildings to look like a town. There is no commonly accepted definition of a ghost town.
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