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The abandoned mining town is about 20 miles Southwest of Medford, at the corner of Sterling Creek Road and Little Applegate Road

By 1933, during the Great Depression, 100 properties were being worked in search of gold and gradually wasting away until 1957. Today Sterlingville is overgrown with trees and brush, with not a trace of where it stood, except for the cemetery.

Golden, Oregon, was a mining town in the 1890s near Coyote Creek in Josephine County, Oregon, about 3 miles off Route 5 (Wolf Creek Exit).  During its time, it boasted 150 residents, two churches, a mercantile and post office, and, most notably, no saloons.  Within about 20 years, the mine was dry, and today, Golden, Oregon, is a ghost town.

Vanport Oregon, sometimes referred to as Vanport City or Kaiserville was a city of wartime public housing between the contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River. It was destroyed in the 1948 Columbia River flood and not rebuilt. It sat on what is currently the site of Delta Park, the Portland International Raceway, and Heron Lakes Golf Course.