List of company towns in the United States

This is a 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.

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.
Bemiston, Alabama, formerly owned by the Bemis Brothers Bag Company
Chickasaw, Alabama, formerly owned by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation [1]
Docena, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
Edgewater, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
Fairfield, Alabama

References

Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946).^
Carranco, Redwood Lumber, pp. 163, 166 & 202^
Lynwood Carranco. Redwood Lumber Industry Golden West Books, 1982^
Carranco, Redwood Lumber, pp. 200–203^

California

Betteravia, California, built by Union Sugar Company

Boron, California, originally built by Pacific Coast Borax Company (now Rio Tinto Borax Mine)

Chester, California, associated with The Collins Companies

Cowell, California, built by Cowell Portland Cement

Crannell, California, built by Little River Redwood Company[2]

Eagle Mountain, California, built by Kaiser Steel

Fort Bragg, California, is a decommissioned United States Army post with residential development and California Western Railroad service overseen by the Union Lumber Company, later Georgia-Pacific [3]

Graeagle, California, owned by Fruit Growers Supply Company, an affiliate of Sunkist

Guasti, California, established by the Italian Vineyard Company

Hercules, California, built by the Hercules Powder Company

Hilt, California, 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[4]

McCloud, California, built by McCloud River Railroad Lumber Company.

Metropolitan, California, built by Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company[5]

Nipton, California, owned by Spiegelworld

Nortonville, California, owned by the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company

Pino Grande, California, built by El Dorado Lumber Company[6]

Rockport, California, built by Cottoneva Lumber Company[3]

Ryan, California, built by the Pacific Coast Borax Company

Samoa, California, built by Vance Lumber Company[7]

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

Selby, California, owned by American Smelting and Refining Company.

Spreckels, California, formerly owned by Spreckels Sugar Company

Tormey, California, owned by American Smelting and Refining Company.

Trona, California, formerly owned by American Potash and Chemical

Usal, California, built by Usal Redwood Company[8]

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, built by lumber company

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

Bordeaux, Washington, logging town abandoned in the 1940s after depleting local resources

Coulee Dam, Washington, 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 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

Richland, Washington, run by the Army Corps of Engineers during and after WWII to house Hanford Site workers

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.

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Alabama

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