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company town A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schools, markets and re ...

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

Listed by state

Alabama

* Acipco, Alabama, formerly owned by American Cast Iron Pipe Company * Aldrich, Alabama, formerly owned by Montevallo Coal Mining Company * Bayview, Alabama, formerly owned by

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (1852–1952), also known as TCI and the Tennessee Company, was a major American steel manufacturer with interests in coal mining, coal and iron ore mining and railroad operations. Originally based en ...

Bemiston, Alabama Bemiston is an unincorporated community and former company town in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. Bemiston now lies within the city limits of Talladega. History Bemiston was founded in 1927, as a mill town built around the Bemis Brot ...

, formerly owned by the

Bemis Brothers Bag Company Bemis Company, Inc. was a global manufacturer of flexible packaging products (ranging from self-venting cook-in-bag packaging and retort packaging for shelf-stable products, to vacuum packaging for meat products and puncture-resistant, sterile m ...

Chickasaw, Alabama Chickasaw is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 6,457, up from 6,106 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Mobile metropolitan area. History Company town In the early 20th century bef ...

, formerly owned by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation * Docena, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. *

Edgewater, Alabama Edgewater is a census-designated place in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is northeast from the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. Its population was 883 at the 2010 census. This area was damaged by tornadoes on April 15, 1956 and ...

, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. *

Fairfield, Alabama Fairfield is a city in western Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Birmingham metropolitan area and is located southeast of Pleasant Grove. The population was 11,117 at the 2010 census. History This city was founded i ...

, (1910) originally "Corey", formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. *

Kaulton, Alabama Kaulton is a ghost town formerly located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States. History Kaulton was founded in 1912 to serve as the location for Kaul Lumber Company's new mill after the mill in Hollins closed. John Kaul hired Boston arch ...

, owned by Kaul Lumber Co. *

Margaret, Alabama Margaret is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 5,106. As of the 2010 census, the population is 4,428, an increase of 278.8%. Margaret in ...

established by Alabama Fuel and Iron Company * West Blocton, Alabama, formerly owned by Cahaba Coal Mining Company * Woodward, Alabama, formerly owned by Woodward Iron Company, later acquired by US Steel

Arizona

* Ajo, Arizona, owned by Phelps Dodge * Bagdad, Arizona, owned by Freeport McMoRan (formerly Phelps Dodge) * Clarkdale, Arizona, built, named for, and formerly owned by Senator William A. Clark's

United Verde Copper Company United may refer to: Places * United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Arts and entertainment Films * ''United'' (2003 film), a Norwegian film * ''United'' (2011 film), a BBC Two fi ...

* Goodyear, Arizona, founded by and named after the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company * Kearny, Arizona, built by Kennecott Mining Company in 1958 * Litchfield Park, Arizona, built by and named after Goodyear CEO

Paul W. Litchfield Paul W. Litchfield (July 26, 1875 – March 18, 1959) was an American inventor, industrialist, and author. He served as President, Chairman, and the first CEO of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and the founder of the town of Litchfield Park, ...

* Morenci, Arizona, owned by Freeport McMoRan (formerly Phelps Dodge) * San Manuel, Arizona, built for Magma Copper (later BHP)

California

Betteravia, California Betteravia (from French " sugar beet roots") was a community in northern Santa Barbara County, California on Betteravia Road, six miles west of Santa Maria. It is notable as a rare ghost town on the Central Coast of California. History Better ...

, built by Union Sugar Company * Chester, California, associated with

The Collins Companies Collins is a family-owned American forest products company that began in operations July 28, 1855. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Collins was the first privately owned forest products company in the United States to have all of its hardwood ...

Cowell, California Cowell is a former unincorporated community now annexed to Concord in Contra Costa County, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With ne ...

, built by Cowell Portland Cement * Crannell, California, built by Little River Redwood Company * Fort Bragg, California, is a decommissioned United States Army post with residential development and California Western Railroad service overseen by the Union Lumber Company *

Graeagle, California Graeagle is a town and census-designated place in eastern Plumas County, California, United States, located along the Middle Fork Feather River in the Northern Sierra Nevada. The population was 737 as of 2010. History The town was founded in 191 ...

, owned by Fruit Growers Supply Company, an affiliate of Sunkist * Hercules, California, built by the

Hercules Powder Company Hercules, Inc. was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the DuPont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit ...

Hilt, California Hilt (also known as Hilts) is a Unincorporated community in Siskiyou County, California, United States. The community is along Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, north of Yreka. It is named for early settler John Hilt. Hilt was a company town ...

, owned by Northern California Lumber Co., then purchased by the Fruit Growers Supply Company, an affiliate of Sunkist * Irvine, California, built by The Irvine Company and incorporated in 1971; the largest planned community in the world, but technically not a company town. * Kirkwood, California, Owned by Vail Resorts * Korbel, Humboldt County, California, built by Humboldt Lumber Mill Company * McCloud, California, built by McCloud River Railroad Lumber Company. * Metropolitan, California, built by Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company * Nipton, California, owned by American Green llc * Nortonville, California, owned by the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company * Pino Grande, California, built by El Dorado Lumber Company * Rockport, California, built by Cottoneva Lumber Company * Samoa, California, built by

Vance Lumber Company Vance may refer to: Locations United States *Vance, Alabama, a town *Vance Township, Vermilion County, Illinois *Vance, Mississippi, an unincorporated community *Vance, Nebraska, an unincorporated community *Vance County, North Carolina * Vance, ...

* Scotia, California, largely owned by the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) * Selby, California, owned by

American Smelting and Refining Company Asarco LLC (American Smelting and Refining Company) is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona, which mines and processes primarily copper. The company has been a subsidiary of Grupo México since 1999. Its three large ...

. * Spreckels, California, formerly owned by Spreckels Sugar Company *

Tormey, California Tormey, formerly known as El Cierbo from the (Spanish word 'Ciervo' for 'Elk' (''Cervus canadensis''), is an unincorporated community in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is located between Rodeo and Crockett on the edge of ...

, owned by

. * Trona, California, formerly owned by

American Potash and Chemical American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...

* Usal, California, built by Usal Redwood Company * Weed, California, named for sawmill owner Abner Weed * Westwood, California, built by the Red River Lumber Company, sold in 1944 to Fruit Growers Supply Company, an affiliate of Sunkist *

Wheeler, California Wheeler was a company town in Mendocino County, California. Located southwest of Piercy, at an elevation of 43 feet (13 m), it was built adjacent to Jackass Creek for logging operations in 1948 and survived until 1959. Sinkyone Wilderness St ...

, built by lumber company

Colorado

* Climax, Colorado, built by the Climax Molybdenum Company, The residential houses were all transported to the West Park subdivision of Leadville, Colorado, before 1965, leaving only the mining buildings standing. *

Durango, Colorado Durango is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 19,071 at the 2020 United States Census. Durango is the home of Fort Lewis Coll ...

, organized in 1880 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad * Gilman, Colorado, built around (and eventually abandoned due to) the New Jersey Zinc Company's Eagle mine *

Ludlow, Colorado Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was the site of the Ludlow Massacre–part of the Colorado Coalfield War–in 1914. The town site is located at the entrance to a canyon in the foothills of the Sangre d ...

, was dominated by Colorado Fuel and Iron *

Portland, Colorado Portland is a Census-designated place, census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Ouray County, Colorado, Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Montrose, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population o ...

, built by the Ideal Cement Company

Connecticut

* Hazardville, Connecticut, industrial village centered around the Hazard Powder Company powder mill * Collinsville, Connecticut, industrial village centered around the Collins Axe Company Manufacture of Machetes and Hand Axes

Florida

* Lake Buena Vista, Bay Lake, and the Reedy Creek Improvement District located within Walt Disney World Resort, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company *

Ybor City Ybor City ( ) is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly ...

, built by Vicente Martinez Ybor for his

cigar A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked. Cigars are produced in a variety of sizes and shapes. Since the 20th century, almost all cigars are made of three distinct components: the filler, the binder l ...

manufacturing businesses; now one of

Tampa Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County ...

's top night spots

Hawaii

* Paia, Hawaii, developed by the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. * Puʻunene, Hawaii, developed by the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.

Idaho

* Cobalt, Idaho, owned by the Howe Sound Mining Company (see Holden Village, Washington) *

Conda, Idaho Conda is an unincorporated community in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. Conda is northeast of Soda Springs. Conda has a post office with ZIP code 83230. History Conda's population was estimated at 200 in 1960. Climate This climatic re ...

(Anaconda Copper Mining Co.) *

Elk River, Idaho Elk River is a city in the northwestern United States in Clearwater County, Idaho. The population was 125 at the 2010 census, down from 156 in 2000.

Headquarters, Idaho Headquarters is an unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. Headquarters is located on State Highway 11, north of Pierce. History A company town of Potlatch Corp., it was originally established as a fire protection ...

(Potlatch Lumber Company) * Leadore, Idaho * Potlatch, Idaho (Potlatch Lumber Company)

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. * Leclaire, Illinois, founded by

N. O. Nelson Nils Olas Nelson (September 11, 1844 – October 5, 1922) was an American industrialist and businessman who was the founder of the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company. Background Nelson was born the son of Anders Nelson at Lillesand in Aust-Agder, ...

(the owner of the Nelson Manufacturing Company) and named in honor of Edme-Jean Leclaire. * 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 Steger is a village that straddles the border which separates Cook County and Will County, Illinois (Steger Road is the border line). It is south of Chicago and had a population of 9,584 at the 2020 census. History S ...

, built and formerly owned by Steger and Sons Piano.

Indiana

* Gary, Indiana, built and formerly owned by

U.S. Steel United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in severa ...

Marktown Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company. ''Note:'' This include ...

, built for the Mark Manufacturing Company in East Chicago * Sunnyside, built and formerly owned by

Inland Steel The Inland Steel Company was an American steel company active in 1893–1998. Its history as an independent firm thus spanned much of the 20th century. It was headquartered in Chicago at the landmark Inland Steel Building. Inland Steel was an i ...

in East Chicago

Iowa

* Buxton, a camp of the

Consolidation Coal Company Consolidation may refer to: In science and technology * Consolidation (computing), the act of linkage editing in computing * Memory consolidation, the process in the brain by which recent memories are crystallised into long-term memory * Pulmonar ...

, abandoned. * Cleveland, a camp of the Whitebreast Coal and Mining Company, outside

Lucas Lucas or LUCAS may refer to: People * Lucas (surname) * Lucas (given name) Arts and entertainment * Luca Family Singers, also known as "lucas ligner en torsk" * ''Lucas'' (album) (2007), an album by Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities * ''L ...

, abandoned. * Everist, a camp of the Mammoth Vein Coal Company (later, the Empire Coal Company), abandoned. * Muchakinock, a coal camp of the

, abandoned. *

Newton Newton most commonly refers to: * Isaac Newton (1642–1726/1727), English scientist * Newton (unit), SI unit of force named after Isaac Newton Newton may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Newton'' (film), a 2017 Indian film * 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.

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 Jenkins may refer to: People * Jenkins (name), history of the surname * List of people with surname Jenkins * The Jenkins, country music group Places United States *Jenkins, Illinois *Jenkins, Kentucky *Jenkins, Minnesota *Jenkins, Missouri *Je ...

, built and formerly owned by

. * 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

* Bogalusa, Louisiana, started by Great Southern Lumber Company * Cinclare, Louisiana, started by Harry L. Laws & Company * Elizabeth, Louisiana started by Industrial Lumber Company * Fisher, Louisiana, started by Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company * Fullerton, Louisiana, started by the Gulf Lumber Company *

Garden City, Louisiana Garden City is an unincorporated community in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is on the south bank of the Bayou Teche, southeast of Franklin and west of Centerville another unincorporated community. Garden City had a p ...

, started by Albert Hanson Lumber Company * Glenmora, Louisiana started by Louisiana Sawmill Company Ltd. * Kinder, Louisiana started by Peavy Byrnes Lumber Company * Long Leaf, Louisiana started by Crowell and Spencer Lumber Company * Pawnee, Louisiana * Stables, Louisiana, started by the Gulf Lumber Company

Maine

* Chisholm, Maine, built by the Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Company * Hastings, Maine, built by the Hastings Lumber Company *

Katahdin Iron Works The Katahdin Iron Works is a Maine state historic site located in the unorganized township of the same name. It is the site of an ironworks which operated from 1845 to 1890. In addition to the kilns of the ironworks (of which only one survives), t ...

, built by Piscataquis Iron Works Company * Millinocket, Maine, 20th century residential development for the Great Northern Paper Company mill * Milo, Maine, includes residential developments for employees of

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad was a United States railroad company that brought rail service to Aroostook County in northern Maine. Brightly-painted BAR boxcars attracted national attention in the 1950s. First-generation diesel locomotives op ...

's Derby shops * Newhall, Maine, residences for employees of

Oriental Powder Company Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine. The company was one of the four largest suppliers to Union forces through the American Civil War. History The Presumpsc ...

Dole, Samuel Thomas ''Windham in the Past'' (1916) * Rumford, Maine, includes residential developments by

paper mill A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients. Prior to the invention and adoption of the Fourdrinier machine and other types of paper machine that use an endless belt, ...

owner

Hugh J. Chisholm Hugh Joseph Chisholm I (; May 2, 1847 – July 1, 1912) was a Canadian industrialist who later became a citizen of the United States. He was born in Chippawa, Ontario, to parents of Scottish ancestry. His early years as an entrepreneur in the ne ...

* Westbrook, Maine, 20th century economy dominated by S. D. Warren Paper Mill

Massachusetts

* Hopedale, Massachusetts, former home of the Draper Corporation, textile machine manufacturer. * North Dighton, Massachusetts, former textile mill town, greatly expanded during the 1910s–1920s. * Southbridge, Massachusetts, former mill town, known for the home of American Optical Company. * Whitinsville, Massachusetts, former home of Whitin Machine Works, textile machine manufacturer.

Michigan

Alberta, Michigan Alberta is an unincorporated community in L'Anse Township of Baraga County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on US Highway 41 (US 41) about south of the village of L'Anse at . Alberta is the site of the Ford Center, managed by ...

, 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

* Akeley, Minnesota, developed by T. B. Walker and named for his business partner, Healy C. Akeley *

Babbitt, Minnesota Babbitt is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 1,462. Saint Louis County Highway 21 (CR 21) serves as a main route in the community. History The city grew out of the form ...

, developed by Reserve Mining Co. * Elcor, Minnesota, developed by Pickands Mather & Company *

Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota Hoyt Lakes is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota. The population was 2,017 at the time of the 2010 census. Saint Louis County Highway 110 (CR 110) serves as a main route in Hoyt Lakes. Geography According to the United States Census Bur ...

, developed by Erie Mining Co. * Morgan Park, Duluth, Minnesota, built by

and named for J.P. Morgan * Splitrock, Minnesota, developed by the Split Rock Lumber Company

Mississippi

Bankston, Mississippi Bankston is a ghost town in Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States. The nearest community is French Camp, located south-southwest. History In 1848, the first successful, mechanically powered textile mill in Mississippi was founded in B ...

, ghost town, former location of Bankston Textile Mill *

Electric Mills, Mississippi Electric Mills is an unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi. It lies along U.S. Route 45 east of the city of De Kalb, the county seat of Kemper County. History The town of Electric Mills was established in 1913 and named after it ...

, started by Sumter Lumber Company *

Fernwood, Mississippi Fernwood is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States. Its ZIP code is 39635. It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 286. Demographics 2020 census ...

, started by

Fernwood Lumber Company Fernwood Lumber Company had its beginning in the 1870s when John Fletcher Enochs and his son, Isaac Columbus Enochs, started a lumber business near Crystal Springs in Copiah County, Mississippi.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 * Grandin, Missouri, established by Missouri Lumber and Mining Company * Leadwood, Missouri, developed by St. Joe Lead * Trenton, Missouri, Ruskin College acquired all the businesses in the hopes of building a utopian society

Montana

* Colstrip, Montana, a coal strip mining town formerly owned by

Montana Power Company The Montana Power Company (MPC) was an electric utility company based in Butte, Montana, which provided electricity to Montana consumers and industry from 1912 to 1997. History The Montana Power Company was founded in 1912 by John D. Ryan, the ...

* Trident, Montana, a former Portland cement company town owned by Holcim

Nevada

* Boulder City, Nevada, built and formerly owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation *

Empire, Nevada Empire is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, with a population estimated at 65 (2021). Empire mine bought out by investor and reopened on a smaller scale. It is part of the Reno– Sparks ...

, owned by USG Corporation McGill, owned By Kennecott

New Hampshire

Berlin, New Hampshire Berlin ( ) is a city along the Androscoggin River in Coös County in northern New Hampshire, United States. It is the northernmost city in New Hampshire. The population was 9,425 at the 2020 census, down from 10,051 at the 2010 census. It ...

, residential development for wood products manufacturing by Berlin Mills Company * Harrisville, New Hampshire, historic textile mill village; National Historic Landmark

New Jersey

* Haskell, New Jersey, named for Laflin & Rand company president Jonathan Haskell *

Manville, New Jersey Manville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The borough is located in the heart of the Raritan Valley region and is a part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's populatio ...

, the largest tract of land was the Johns Manville Corporation *

Maurer, Perth Amboy Maurer is residential neighbourhood and industrial district of Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its name is derived from the "company town" built there in 1876. It is north of the Route 440 approach to the ...

built by brick manufacturer after the Civil War and later absorbed into Perth Amboy * Roebling, New Jersey, a factory village within the limits of Florence, New Jersey; the town was owned by the Roebling Steel Corporation run by the descendants of John A. Roebling

New Mexico

* Madrid, New Mexico, residential development for miners of the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company * Playas, New Mexico, built by Phelps Dodge Corporation

New York

* Cohoes, New York, formerly owned by

Harmony Mills Harmony Mills, in Cohoes, New York, United States, is an industrial district that is bordered by the Mohawk River and the tracks of the former Troy and Schenectady Railroad (now the Mohawk-Hudson bike trail). It was listed as Harmony Mills Histo ...

* Endicott, New York planned and incorporated by Endicott Johnson Corporation * Johnson City, New York renamed by and after

George F. Johnson George Francis Johnson (1857–1948) was an American businessman. Biography Early life George Francis Johnson was born in Milford, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1857, to Francis A. Johnson and Sarah Jane (Aldrich) Johnson. His siblings wer ...

of the Endicott Johnson Corporation * Oneida, New York, incorporated 1848 by the Oneida Community which later became

Oneida Limited Oneida Limited () is an American manufacturer and seller of tableware and cutlery. Oneida is one of the world’s largest designers and sellers of stainless steel and silverplated cutlery and tableware for the consumer and foodservice industries. ...

* Steinway Village, the part of New York City in Astoria, Queens used by employees of

Steinway & Sons Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to ...

North Carolina

Bunn, North Carolina Bunn is a town in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 327 at the 2020 census. History Bunn is named for Green Walker Bunn, who first settled southeast of the current town in the late 1800s. The town was established ...

, a former company town previously owned by the Montgomery Lumber Company *

Bynum, North Carolina Bynum is an unincorporated community in northeastern Chatham County, North Carolina, United States on the banks of the Haw River. Bynum is north of Pittsboro and south of Chapel Hill. It is also known as Bynum Mill Village or Bynum Mill Hill.C ...

, formerly owned by J.M. Odell Manufacturing Company (town purchased by the county in the 1970s) * Canton, North Carolina, a company town built-up by the Champion International Paper Company * Kannapolis, North Carolina, owned by the Cannon Mills Company * Saxapahaw, North Carolina, formerly owned by Sellers Manufacturing Company

Ohio

Glenwillow, Ohio Glenwillow is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 923 at the 2010 census. History The Village of Glenwillow was carved out of Solon Township and established in 1893 as a company town by Austin Powder Company. ...

, built by the

Austin Powder Company Austin Cartridge Company was an Austin Powder Company subsidiary manufacturing cartridge ammunition for small arms. The company made shotgun shells and rimfire cartridges from 1895 until purchased by Western Cartridge Company in 1907. History A ...

Goes Station, Ohio Goes Station (also known as Goes) is a small unincorporated community in northern Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, United States. It sits at the intersection of Snively Road and U.S. Route 68 between Xenia and Yellow Springs. The communi ...

, built by the

Miami Powder Company Miami Powder Company operated a gunpowder manufacturing complex on the Little Miami River at Goes Station, Ohio from 1855 to 1925. Willows growing along the banks of the Little Miami River provided the charcoal required for gunpowder. Production ...

* Kings Mills, Ohio, built by the Great Western Powder Company and Peters Cartridge Company * McDonald, Ohio, built and formerly owned by the Carnegie Steel Company (later U.S. Steel) *

Rossford, Ohio Rossford is a city in Wood County, Ohio, Wood County, Ohio, United States, located along the Maumee River in the Toledo metropolitan area. The population was 6,293 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census. The town includes the intersection o ...

, founded by the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company (later Libbey-Owens-Ford)

Oklahoma

* Broken Bow, Oklahoma * Wright City, Oklahoma, built by the Choctaw Lumber Company

Oregon

Algoma, Oregon Algoma is an unincorporated community on the east shore of Upper Klamath Lake, in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is about north of the city of Klamath Falls on U.S. Route 97. Algoma was named for the Algoma Lumber Company. History ...

, supported by the Algoma Lumber Company * Bradwood, Oregon * Brookings, Oregon, built by John E. Brookings and sold to California & Oregon Lumber Company * Dee, Oregon * Gilchrist, Oregon * Grand Ronde, Oregon * Hines, Oregon * Kinzua, Oregon * Maxville, Oregon * Mowich, Oregon * Neverstill, Oregon *

Olney, Oregon Olney is an unincorporated community and former company town in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 202 approximately eight miles south of Astoria. Olney is located at . Its post office is assigned ZIP code 97325. The town o ...

Orenco, Oregon Orenco (or en koh) is a former company town in Washington County, Oregon, United States, located between Hillsboro and Aloha. The former community of Orenco now forms the Orenco neighborhood in Hillsboro, which is the site of the Orenco Station h ...

, Oregon Nursery Company *

Perry, Oregon Perry is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, Union County, Oregon, United States. It is located five miles west of La Grande on the Grande Ronde River and Interstate 84 (west), Interstate 84. The town was or ...

Pine Ridge, Oregon ''Pine Ridge'' was a company town located about a mile north of Chiloquin, Oregon, along the Williamson River, run by the Forest Lumber Company from 1924 to 1939. It included a sawmill, offices, hotel, school, residences, and company store. It ...

Pondosa, Oregon Pondosa is an unincorporated community and ghost town in Union County, Oregon, United States. The town came into being in 1927, when the four Stoddard brothers of La Grande bought land in the area. They moved the sawmill operations of the G ...

* Powers, Oregon *

Shevlin, Oregon Shevlin was an unincorporated community in Deschutes and Klamath counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It consisted of a collection of logging camp buildings that were moved from place to place on rail cars as logging progressed. The loggers w ...

Southport, Oregon Southport is an unincorporated locale in Coos County, Oregon, United States. It was located along Southport Creek, near where the creek flows into Isthmus Slough, south of the city of Coos Bay, at an elevation of 30 feet (9 m). The former commu ...

, owned by the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company *

Starkey, Oregon Starkey is an unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, United States, about 26 miles southwest of La Grande. It is about two miles south of Oregon Route 244 in the Blue Mountains. Starkey post office was established in 1879 and named ...

* Valsetz, Oregon * Vanport, Oregon *

Vaughn, Oregon Vaughn is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located about south of Noti in the foothills of the Central Oregon Coast Range near Noti Creek. Author Ralph Friedman described Vaughn as "a mill in the meadows". ...

* Wauna, Oregon *

Wendling, Oregon Wendling is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, located northeast of Marcola. Wendling's post office operated from 1899 to 1952. It was named for George X. Wendling, a local lumberman. Wendling was created as a com ...

* Westfir, Oregon * Wheeler, Tillamook County, Oregon * Wilark, Oregon

Pennsylvania

* Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, former home of the

Jones & Laughlin Steel Company The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation began as the American Iron Company, founded in 1852 by Bernard Lauth and Benjamin Franklin Jones, a few miles (c 4 km) south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. Lauth's interest was bought in ...

* Ambridge, Pennsylvania, formed in 1905 by the American Bridge Company * Braddock, Pennsylvania, dominated by Carnegie Steel Company and later by

Buck Run, Pennsylvania Buck Run is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 176 at the 2010 census. Geography Buck Run is located at (40.707989, -76.324205). According to the United States Census Bureau, th ...

, built by James B. Neale between 1902 and 1943 for his anthracite coal miners and their families. By 1925, his company town boasted of a school, an infirmary, a community recreation facility, a company store and several churches in addition to homes for the miners with running water, electricity and steam heat. The Buck Run colliery was located outside of Pottsville, in Schuylkill County. * Ford City, Pennsylvania, organized in 1887 by

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* Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by

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Chocolate Corporation * Kistler, Pennsylvania, built by the Mount Union Refractories Company in 1918, designed by John Nolen * Lake Trade, Pennsylvania, a now defunct coal mining town in Venango Township, Northern Butler County *

Lawrence Park Township, Pennsylvania Lawrence Park Township is the only first class township in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,825 at the 2020 census, down from 4,048 at the 2000 census. The 2010 census counted a population of 3,982, for a decline ...

, built by

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in 1919 * Natrona, Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company in the 1850s with later additions * Peale, Pennsylvania (1883–1912) * Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, founded by John A. Roebling and other German immigrants it was the site of his first wire works in the United States (see also Roebling, New Jersey) * Claghorn,

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, and Wehrum, Pennsylvania, built by the Lackawanna Coal Company * Tacony, Philadelphia, built by Henry Disston for workers at his saw factory * Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, a borough formed by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company * Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, established by George McCurtry, President of Apollo Iron and Steel Company * Woolrich, Pennsylvania, the home of Woolrich, Inc.

Rhode Island

* Slatersville, Rhode Island, historic former mill village

South Carolina

* Newry, South Carolina * Piedmont, South Carolina

South Dakota

East Sioux Falls, South Dakota East Sioux Falls was a city located in southeastern Minnehaha County, South Dakota located about 6 miles east of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Sioux Falls along South Dakota Highway 42 on the Big Sioux River. History During the 1880s, the quarrying of ...

, an old quarrying town east of Sioux Falls, owned by the East Sioux Falls Quarry Company.

Tennessee

* Alcoa, Tennessee, formerly owned by

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and still economically dominated by the company *

Bemis, Tennessee Bemis is a former company town in Madison County, Tennessee, United States, now part of the city of Jackson. The Bemis Brothers Bag Company established the town in 1900 to be the site of a cotton mill and housing for the mill workers. A area of B ...

, built by the Bemis Bag Company for mill workers; now a history district in Jackson *

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, operated by the Sewanee Coal, Coke and Land Company * Norris, Tennessee, built and formerly owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority *

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, built in secret by the United States government for the Manhattan Project; controlled by the federal government until 1959 * Old Hickory, Tennessee, built to house

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employees; now a suburb of

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Texas

* Camden, Texas, owned by the W.T. Carter & Brother Lumber Company and its successors * Sugar Land, Texas, once owned and run by the Imperial Sugar Company, transformed into an upscale suburb of Houston *

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Utah

* Bacchus, Utah, Hercules Powder Company, now a ghost town * Bingham Canyon, Utah *

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, built and owned by Ruby's Inn and the Syrett family, owners of Ruby's Inn

Vermont

* Proctor, Vermont, once owned by the Vermont Marble Company; the town of Proctor was under the control of

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Redfield Proctor

Virginia

* Bacova, Virginia, created by the Tidewater Lumber Company. The name Bacova was selected by the company as shorthand for Bath County, Va. * Bassett, Virginia, dominated by Bassett Furniture company, still housing the company’s headquarters * Fries, Virginia, created by th
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* Saltville, Virginia, dominated by Mathieson Alkali Works and its successors through the Olin Corporation *

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was dominated by

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Washington

Alpine, Washington Alpine was a village located on the shores of Lake Cavanaugh, in Skagit County, Washington. A very brief reference to it is found in ''An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties'', by Elizan M. Wallace, published by Interstate Publis ...

, 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 Bodie is a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. Geography Bodie is located at (48.832667, -118.896704), approximately by stagecoach heading north of Wauconda along Toroda Creek (County Road 9495) off Washington State Route 2 ...

, and its related

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controlled by the

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Coulee Dam, Washington Coulee Dam is a town in Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan counties in the State of Washington. The Douglas County portion of Coulee Dam is part of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,211 as of the 2 ...

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 Builders 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

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. * 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

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the lumber baron from Kansas. *

Newhalem, Washington Newhalem (''Lushootseed'': dxʷʔiyb) is a small unincorporated community in northwestern Washington, United States, located in the western foothills of the North Cascades along the Skagit River. It is located within Whatcom County. Descriptio ...

, 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 Roche Harbor is a sheltered harbor on the northwest side of San Juan Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States, and the site of a resort of the same name. Roche Harbor faces Haro Strait and the Canada–United States border. The harbor ...

, 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 *

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, established by Weyerhaeuser. It was abandoned on an unknown date.

West Virginia

* Cass, West Virginia, founded in 1901 for

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logging the nearby mountains * Coalwood, West Virginia, formerly owned by the Olga Coal Company * Gary, West Virginia, formerly owned by

* Grant Town, West Virginia, built by the Federal Coal and Coke Company, which built and operated the Federal No. 1 Mine. *

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or Kaymoor, West Virginia, owned by the Low Moor Iron Company

Wisconsin

* Fosterville, Wisconsin, was built by John J. Foster of the Vilas County Lumber Company. Now it is named Presque Isle, Wisconsin *

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, built by Goodman Lumber Co. * Kohler, Wisconsin, built by the Kohler Company * Laona, Wisconsin, built by the William D. Connor's Connor Company * Winegar, Wisconsin, Fosterville renamed by William S. Winegar of the Vilas County Lumber Company in 1910. Now named Presque Isle, Wisconsin

Wyoming

* Bairoil, Wyoming became a company town supported by Amoco * Jeffrey City, Wyoming was built in 1957 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. * Sinclair, Wyoming supported by Sinclair Oil. * Table Rock, Wyoming was built in the 1970s to support the nearby

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processing plant. * Wright, Wyoming was built by

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in the 1970s to support its Black Thunder Coal Mine. Wright incorporated in 1985