Ghost Town Name Generator

One that explains itself. The best ghost town names record why people came and hint at why they left: Last Chance, Dry Diggings, Shaft Seven, Sunken Ferry, Quarantine Wells. Short, concrete and a little hopeful is the real-world pattern; the emptiness supplies the mood.

Both. The list opens with genuine abandoned places from the American West, Appalachia, Australia, Namibia, Chile, Italy, Britain and the Chernobyl zone, then moves into invented names built the same way real ones were: minerals, claims, sidings, company numbers, floods and bad luck. Use the real ones for reference or settings and the invented ones for original fiction.

Yes. Mining camps and sidings suit westerns and Red Dead-style games, drowned and coal towns suit folk horror and Appalachian gothic, and the desert and atomic-era names work for post-apocalyptic settings. For fantasy, swap in your world's minerals and surnames but keep the same feature-plus-type structure.

Do not put the word ghost, death or doom in it. Let the name be ordinary and let the description do the work: a rusted water tower, a post office with the flag still up, a cemetery larger than the town. Adding 'Old' to a normal name (Old Gallatin, Old Millbrook) is the quietest way to signal that something replaced it.