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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Minnesota, a northern state in the United States of America. Ashton. Belden. Betcher. Bodum. Bruce. Carnegie. Cazenovia. Chengwatana.
Lake Bemidji. Bena – from Ojibwe bine: grouse or partridge [73] Chanhassen – Dakota for "sugar maple" [74] Chaska – named for the founding business Shaska Company, which takes its name from the given name for a first born son in Dakota Chaska[75] Chengwatana – from Ojibwe Zhingwaadena: "Pine-town". Chokio. Cohasset.
Lake Wobegon. Lake Wobegon is a fictional town created by Garrison Keillor as the setting of the recurring segment "News from Lake Wobegon" for the radio program A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from Saint Paul, Minnesota. The fictional town serves as the setting for many of Keillor's stories and novels, gaining an international audience with ...
Minnesota. Harmony. Local legend has it that this town was named when residents were engaged in a tense debate over what the town was named and an onlooker stepped in saying, "Let’s have Harmony ...
Terrebonne, Minnesota. Topelius, Minnesota. Categories: Ghost towns in the United States by state. Former populated places in Minnesota. Commons category link is on Wikidata.
A township in Granville County, North Carolina. A locality within Burwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The capital city of Tank District, Pakistan, and located near Dera Ismail Khan. Apparently this place loves tanks. A town in Estonia. "Tapa" means "kill" in Estonian. A river in North Carolina.
The Bostons in Indiana, Missouri, New York, and Highland and Summit Counties in Ohio, as well as Boston Corner, New York and South Boston, Virginia are named after Boston, Massachusetts; those in Georgia and Texas are named after people; while most other places with the name do not have a known etymology.
The unofficial nicknames listed here have been in use for a long time or have gained wide currency. Anoka – Halloween Capital of the World [3] Albert Lea – The Land Between the Lakes [4] Austin – Spamtown USA [5][6] Bemidji – First City on the Mississippi [7] Braham – Homemade Pie Capital of Minnesota [8] Duluth. The Zenith City [9]