Talk:List of ghost towns in Oklahoma

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Should probably be merged with List of abandoned communities in Oklahoma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.133.189 (talk) 05:57, 6 March 2007‎

Awesome list this. Wish there were similar compilations for more states. Hexmaster (talk) 11:38, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

all-black towns?[edit]

Could we mark which towns were all-black? I'm not even sure many of them are included on this list? (See here for a map.) Aristophanes68 (talk) 03:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible merge?[edit]

There is also a list of 'Abandoned communities in Oklahoma' with roughly the same type of information. Perhaps the two lists should be merged. Narthring (talk) 19:41, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree; Anandoned communities is a small subset of ghost towns, and is already well covered within the ghost towns page. With the current sortable list on the ghost-town's page, the abandoned communities can be readily listed for those who have this specific need. So, agree that the information is best consolidated in one place. Klbrain (talk) 15:32, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hoax ghost towns[edit]

Given that the Morris Ghost Towns book goes straight from Avery to Beer City, all of the entries in between in this article are probably false. They certainly contradict their own articles. For examples:

Baker, Oklahoma — "thriving" per its article
Balko, Oklahoma — current population as of 2020 per its article (which is sourced to a GNIS regurgitator WWW site, but that's another problem for that article)
Bearden, Oklahoma — the article has the 2000 census figures sourced directly to the Census by Rambot, and is a supposed "ghost town" with an evident 21st century population

It seems that there are possibly many hoax ghost towns on this list, given that there are many such gaps in the Morris sourcing.

They aren't filled in by the "Ghost Towns of Oklahoma" WWW site, either. That's a self-submission WWW site where you can "Click Here to submit a Ghost Town". You can tell that they aren't doing the checking that they claim to have done because they claim that Beck is a ghost town and with a little postscript "1" (as it numbers the sources on its "Books" page) tell us that it is in the Morris Ghost Towns book. If it were, it would be sourced like that here. But it isn't. A whole load of entries here are sourced to an unreliable source that is very obviously not fact checking anything.

Uncle G (talk) 21:09, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]