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List of ghost towns in Texas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ3255234 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Texas.

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Additional sourcing

Texas – GhostTowns.com

Texas Ghost Towns

Texas Escapes online magazine

Ghost Towns of Texas. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Google Books. Retrieved August 19, 2013.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “List of ghost towns in Texas” as wikimedia list article. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, ghost and towns can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia list article. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3255234. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of ghost towns in Texas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.