List of company towns in the United States

Towns listed in bold are still considered company towns today; other entries are former company towns. See the Category:Company towns in the United States for an unannotated list of articles.

This is a list of company towns in the United States.

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of company towns.

Listed by state

Alabama

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois
  • Granite City, Illinois, built by St. Louis Stamping Company, a steel company known for its "Granite ware" in which cooking utensils were made to look like granite
  • Hegewisch, Chicago, founded by Adolph Hegewisch (President of the United States Rolling Stock Company) to emulate the company town of Pullman.
  • Pullman, Chicago, once an independent city within Illinois, owned by the Pullman Sleeping Car Co.
  • Naplate, built and formerly owned by the National Plate Glass Co.
  • Steger, Illinois, built and formerly owned by Steger and Sons Piano.

Iowa
  • Buxton, a camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned.
  • Cleveland, a camp of the Whitebreast Coal and Mining Company, outside Lucas, abandoned.
  • Everist, a camp of the Mammoth Vein Coal Company (later, the Empire Coal Company), abandoned.
  • Muchakinock, a coal camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned.
  • Newton, where the well-known Maytag company closed down in 2006.
  • Numa and its abandoned suburb Martinstown, former home of the Numa Block Coal Company.
  • Severs, south of Colfax camp of the Colfax Consolidated Coal Company, abandoned.
  • Stone City, a town built by local limestone quarry businesses. Today an unincorporated community.

Indiana

Kentucky
  • Barthell, built by the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company in 1902.
  • Benham, built and formerly owned by International Harvester.
  • Blackey, built and formerly owned by Blackey Coal Company.
  • Blue Heron, ghost town built by Stearns Coal and Lumber Company.
  • David, built and formerly owned by Princess Elkhorn Coal Company.
  • Fleming-Neon, built and formerly owned by Elkhorn Coal Corporation.
  • Highsplint, built and formerly owned by High Splint Coal Company.
  • Jenkins, built and formerly owned by Consolidation Coal Company.
  • Lynch, built and formerly owned by U.S. Steel.
  • Midway, built and laid out by Lexington and Ohio Railroad in 1830.
  • Seco, built and formerly owned by South Eastern Coal Company.
  • Stearns, built by Stearns Coal and Lumber Company.
  • Stone, built and formerly owned by Pond Creek Coal Company. It was also owned by Fordson Coal Company and Eastern Coal Company.
  • Thealka, built and formerly owned by North East Coal Company.
  • Van Lear, built and formerly owned by Consolidation Coal Company.
  • Wayland, built and formerly owned by Elk Horn Coal Company.
  • Wheelwright, built and formerly owned by Elk Horn Coal Company.

Louisiana

Maine

Massachusetts

Michigan
  • Alberta, Michigan, started by Henry Ford
  • Gwinn, Michigan, owned by Cleveland Cliffs Iron, nicknamed the "Model Town", because CCI intended its layout to be a model for all of their other company towns
  • Hermansville, Michigan, started by the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri
  • Deering, Missouri, established by Deering Harvester Company or its successor International Harvester Company and later acquired by Wisconsin Lumber Company, which eventually ceased operations and divested it
  • Leadwood, Missouri, developed by St. Joe Lead
  • Trenton, Missouri, Ruskin College acquired all the businesses in the hopes of building a utopian society

Montana

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington
  • Alpine, Washington, owned by Alpine Lumber Company
  • Barneton, Washington, owned by Kent Lumber Company, bought in 1911 by Seattle City Light, razed in 1924
  • Black Diamond, Washington, owned by the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company, sold to the Pacific Coast Company in 1904
  • Bodie, Washington, and its related Bodie Mine controlled by the Northern Gold Company
  • Coulee Dam, Washington was originally two adjacent company towns created in 1933 to support the construction of Grand Coulee Dam – Mason City, owned by lead construction contractor Consolidated Bullders Inc., and Engineers' Town, owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. CBI transferred control of Mason City to Reclamation in 1942. Reclamation then combined Engineers' Town and Mason City into Coulee Dam in 1948, began selling the town to its inhabitants in 1957, and completed the divestiture in 1959, when Coulee Dam officially incorporated as a town.
  • Diablo, Washington is a running settlement in unincorporated Whatcom County, it was created by Seattle City Light in 1930
  • Dupont, Washington, provided housing to workers at a dynamite factory on the waterfront operated by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
  • Holden, Washington, built by the Howe Sound Mining Company, which also owned Britannia Beach; once the most productive copper mine in the U.S., the mine closed in 1957 and it and the townsite were sold to a unit of the Lutheran church for $1 in the 1950s; now run as a Christian retreat center
  • Hooper, Washington, owned by the McGregor Land and Livestock Company
  • Longview, Washington, established in 1921 by the Long-Bell Lumber Company and led by Robert A. Long the lumber baron from Kansas.
  • Newhalem, Washington, owned by Seattle City Light, as is nearby Diablo
  • Port Gamble, Washington, still owned by Pope & Talbot but the lumber mill has not operated since the mid-1990s
  • Roche Harbor, Washington, formerly supporting lime kilns owned by Tacoma and Roche Harbor Lime Company
  • Ruston, Washington, established by industrialist William Rust; the town's primary industry was an ASARCO copper smelting plant
  • Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, established by Weyerhaeuser. It was abandoned on an unknown date.

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming
  • Bairoil, Wyoming became a company town supported by Amoco
  • Jeffrey City, Wyoming was built in the 1950s to house employees of nearby Western Nuclear uranium mining and milling operations. Other uranium mining companies built housing adjacent to the town to take advantage of its location and infrastructure. The townsite was sold off in an auction in the 1990s.
  • Gas Hills, Wyoming was composed of several mining companies' towns, the largest of which was owned by Lucky Mc Uranium.
  • Shirley Basin, Wyoming was another uranium mining company town owned by Utah Construction and Mining's uranium operations.
  • Table Rock, Wyoming was built in the 1970s to support the nearby Colorado Interstate Gas processing plant.
  • Wright, Wyoming was built by ARCO in the 1970s to support its Black Thunder Coal Mine. Wright incorporated in 1985

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