Ghost Towns in Beaverhead Area

Beaverhead County shares heavily in Montana's rich history of ghost towns from early mining days. Many websites offer interesting, as well as genealogically valuable, names, stories, photos, etc. Rather than try to keep a complete list with links, we suggest a web-search for key words such as Montana ghost town, or Beaverhead Montana ghost town, or for a specific focus, the town name such as Glendale Montana.

Some of the more prominent ghost towns are:

• Argenta
• Armstead
• Apex
• Bannack
• Burfiend Station
• Coolidge
• Elkhorn
• Farlin
• Glendale
• Hecla, Lion City, Trapper City
• Quartz Hill, Vipond / Vipond Park
• Rochester
• Polaris
• Terminus (became Dillon)

For a more extensive list of old places, see The History of Beaverhead County, Vol I — 1800-1920, pp 6-16.