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.
Arkansas
California
Colorado
- Sopris, flooded by the creation of Trinidad Lake State Park Reservoir
- Dillon, under Dillon Reservoir
- Stout, Flooded by the creation of Horsetooth Reservoir
Connecticut
Indiana
- Fairfield, under Brookville Lake
- Somerset, under Mississinewa Reservoir
Kentucky
- Eddyville, Kentucky, flooded by the creation of Lake Barkley.
- Kuttawa, Kentucky, flooded by the creation of Lake Barkley.
- Birmingham, Kentucky, flooded by the creation of Kentucky Lake.
Maine
- Flagstaff, under Flagstaff Lake
Maryland
- Warren, flooded by the creation of Loch Raven Reservoir[9]
Massachusetts
- Dana, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Enfield, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Greenwich, under Quabbin Reservoir
- Prescott, partially under Quabbin Reservoir
Michigan
- Rawsonville, under Belleville Lake
Mississippi
Nevada
- St. Thomas, under Lake Mead
New York
- Arena, flooded by Pepacton Reservoir
- Boiceville, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Brown's Station, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
- Cannonsville, flooded by Cannonsville Reservoir
- Elko, flooded by Allegheny Reservoir
- Gilboa, flooded by Schoharie Reservoir and relocated
- Glenford, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- Kensico, flooded by Kensico 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
- West Hurley, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir and relocated
- West Shokan, flooded by Ashokan Reservoir
North Carolina
- Judson, flooded by Fontana Lake[16]
- Proctor, flooded by Fontana Lake
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
- 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
- Homestead, possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir
- Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Orleans, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862
- Robinette, under Brownlee Reservoir
- Vanport, destroyed by the flooding of the Columbia River
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 Lake
- Wilsonville, flooded to create Lake Wallenpaupack
Rhode Island
- Scituate, partially flooded by Scituate Reservoir
South Carolina
- Ferguson, flooded by Lake Marion
- Andersonville, flooded by Lake Hartwell
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
Washington
- Vantage, flooded by the Wanapum Dam
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