List of flooded towns in the United States
These are U.S. towns and villages flooded by the creation of dams, destroyed by the advancing sea, or washed away in floods and never rebuilt.
Alabama
- Riverton, under Pickwick Lake
California
- Baird, under Shasta Lake
- Copper City, under Shasta Lake
- Elmore, under Shasta Lake
- Etter, under Shasta Lake
- Kennett, under Shasta Lake
- Morley, under Shasta Lake
- Pitt, under Shasta Lake
- Stringtown, under Trinity Lake
- Winthrop, under Shasta Lake
Colorado
- Montgomery, flooded by the creation of Montgomery Reservoir
Connecticut
- Barkhamstad Hollow, under Barkhamsted Reservoir
- Hartland Hollow, under Barkhamsted Reservoir
Indiana
- Deaf Man's Village, under Mississinewa Reservoir
- Somerset, under Mississinewa Reservoir
Maine
- Flagstaff, under Flagstaff Lake
Massachusetts
- Dana, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Enfield, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Greenwich, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Prescott, partially under Quabbin Reservoir
Nevada
- St. Thomas, under Lake Mead
New York
- Arena, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Ashokan, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- Ashton, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Bittersweet, flooded by Neversink Reservoir
- Boiceville, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Brodhead, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Brown's Station, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Cannonsville, flooded by Cannonsville Reservoir
- Elko, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Eureka, flooded by Rondout Reservoir
- Gilboa, flooded by Schoharie Reservoir and relocated
- Glenford, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- Kensico, flooded by Kensico Reservoir
- Lackawack, flooded by Rondout Reservoir
- Montela, flooded by Rondout Reservoir
- Neversink, flooded by Neversink Reservoir and relocated
- Olive, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Olive Bridge, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- Pepacton, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Shavertown, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Shokan, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Stony Hollow, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Union Grove, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- West Hurley, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- West Shokan, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
Oregon
- Arlington, flooded by Lake Umatilla but relocated
- Bayocean, destroyed by erosion into the Pacific Ocean
- Blalock, inundated by the backwaters from the John Day Dam
- Carter, under Lookout Point Reservoir
- Celilo, flooded by Lake Celilo
- Champoeg, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Copper, under Applegate Reservoir
- Detroit, inundated by Detroit Lake and relocated
- Dorena, flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocated
- Eula, under Lookout Point Reservoir
- Homestead, possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir
- Klamath Junction, under Emigrant Lake
- Landax (also known as Signal), under Lookout Point Reservoir
- Lawler, under Lookout Point Reservoir
- Laurelhurst, under Lost Creek Lake
- Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Orleans, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Reserve, under Lookout Point Reservoir
- Robinette, under Brownlee Reservoir
- Santiam City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Syracuse, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Vanport, destroyed by the flooding of the Columbia River
- Watson, under Owyhee Reservoir
Pennsylvania
- Corydon, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Livermore, flooded by the Conemaugh Dam
- Kinzua, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Milford Mills, flooded by creation of Marsh Creek Dam
Utah
- Adventure, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Connellsville, flooded by Electric Lake
- Hailstone, flooded by Jordanelle Reservoir
- Keetley, flooded by Jordanelle Reservoir
- Linwood, flooded by Flaming Gorge Reservoir
- Rockport, flooded by Rockport Reservoir
- Stringtown, flooded by Pineview Reservoir
Washington
- Vantage, flooded by the Wanapum Dam
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