Nearly 50, 000 workers lived in a construction camp near the old Hanford townsite, while administrators and engineers lived in the government town established at Richland Village.

The Talkeetna townsite was established in 1919 when the railroad surveyed and auctioned 80 lots.

The townsite office opened on May 17, 1912, the same year that Chandler High School was established.

Rosamond was originally established in 1877 as a townsite which was owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was named ' Rosamond ' after the daughter of one of the railroad officials.

Vaca Valley Railroad officials gave the name Esperanza (" hope " in Spanish ) to their new townsite in 1888, but when the post office was established in 1890 the name had to be changed because there was already an Esperanza in Tulare County.

The first permanent settlement in the area was a stage stop established in 1864 at Rock Creek near the present-day townsite.

The legally established townsite was known as Cloud City, named after Mr. Cloud, a well-respected citizen and railroad engineer.

As the community developed, Mrs. Kelley implemented numerous innovative directives, including operating a shuttle service to local shopping areas, and allowing the financing of automobiles as part of the financing of houses, which created a stronger connection between the relatively isolated townsite and more established suburbs, as well as the city of Detroit.

The original townsite of Belgrade was established and filed in the Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office by Thomas B. Quaw, a businessman from the midwest, in July 1881.

The first Merna Post Office was located about one-half mile north of the present townsite and was established on March 2, 1880.

The townsite of Laughlin was established in the 1940s as South Pointe because of the proximity to the southern tip of the state of Nevada.

When copper ore was discovered in 1866 and mining began, the Central Pacific Railroad started a station to support the mining activity and in 1870 moved the Argenta station to Battle Mountain and established a townsite to serve the Battle Mountain copper and gold mining district.

The existing townsite was established in 1912 by O. W.

Martindale was established in 1855 by Nancy Martindale, who moved to Texas from Mississippi in 1851 and donated land for the townsite.

Godley was established in 1886 and named for R. B. Godley, a Cleburne lumber merchant who donated an eight-acre tract for a townsite and twenty acres of land as a right-of-way to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.

Earth was established by William E. Halsell, who laid out the townsite in 1924.

In 1850 Robert Calvert, for whom the town was named, established a plantation west of the townsite.

St. Marys was established in 1849 by Alexander Creel, who is said to have had a vision of Mary while passing the townsite by boat on the Ohio River.

The townsite was established by three lot sales beginning with the Canadian Valley Construction Company sale on September 19, 1906.

A settlement called Stafford's Point established itself around the plantation ; it became a townsite in August 1853 when the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway began stopping at Stafford's Point.

The area was first settled in 1820 by French Canadian fur trader Étienne Augustin de Lamorandière and his Anishinaabe wife Josephte Saisaigonokwe, who established a trading post named Shebahonaning ( canoe passage ) at the townsite.

In 1857, the modern townsite was established near the Ojibwa village of Wasauksing (" shining shore ") at the mouth of the Seguin River.

The railway siding at the location of the future townsite was established by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911 and originally named Fitzhugh after a Grand Trunk vice president ( along the Grand Trunk's " alphabet " line ).

They established a successful fishing wharf on the Balboa Peninsula and established the townsite of Newport Beach.

The townsite was first surveyed in 1865 by Captain John Wood.

In 1810 the Okhota, its mouth jammed by ice, cut a new channel through the spit and isolated the townsite.

In the fall of 1911 the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway reached the townsite of Rankin, and by January 1912 most of the people living in Upland had moved to Rankin.

The majority of the original townsite was consumed by the excavation of the Lavender Pit mine during the 1950s.

The townsite, named Clovis by Pollasky, was laid out on what was originally Owen's land.

The original townsite was surveyed and laid out in 1859 by Theodore Judah along the proposed line of the California Central Railroad.

The current town of Ramona was founded in 1886, when a land speculation syndicate, headed by Milton Santee, " organized the Santa Maria Land & Water Company and acquired for a townsite in the Santa Maria Valley and named it Ramona ".

Today the western portion of the camp is occupied by the townsite of Newell.

The townsite was originally laid out in 1850 by John Rose at the furthest navigable point on the Yuba River, on the south bank above Marysville.

The townsite was selected by Joseph Fisher at the junction of the St. Maries and St. Joseph Rivers which would provide a good place for a sawmill.

The townsite was selected December 1, 1862 ; and by December 16 there were 6 cabins in the camp.

Twin Falls city was founded in 1904 as a planned community, designed by celebrated Franco-American architect Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, with proceeds from sales of townsite lots going toward construction of irrigation canals.

The land for the townsite of Speareville was deeded by the Santa Fe to the Arkansas Valley Town Company in March, 1873, and was surveyed and platted.

The Oswego Historical Museum and Genealogy Department, owned by the Oswego Historical Society, Inc., offers guided museum tours featuring period-style theme rooms, genealogical research, and tours of an original log cabin, a partially reconstructed building original to the Oswego townsite.

The townsite was purchased by a railroad executive, Benjamin F. Abbott, who wished to change the name of the town to Abbottsville, however sensibility prevailed and the evocative name of Eagle Bend was retained.

Called " the most beautiful town site along the Northern Pacific Railroad between Brainerd and Fargo ", the townsite of Verndale was situated east of the Wing River, on the edge of a beautiful prairie which was sheltered on the north and west by groves of small pines.

Less than fifty years later, Pike's island 72 was selected by Captain Orrin Smith as a townsite on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Folsom, who worked with the original townsite company, Tekamah was literally chosen by the luck of the draw.

Struck by the beauty and the prospects of the Loup valley, they took out homesteads, successfully petitioned the state legislature to form a new county to be known as Howard County, and laid out the townsite.

Just west of the Columbus site, the Elk Horn and Loup Fork Bridge and Ferry Company, headed by James C. Mitchell, had laid out the townsite of Pawnee.

In October 1871, the townsite of Jackson was laid out by officials of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Spurred by the rumor that a depot would be built in the area, Charles Henry Morrill, president of the Lincoln Land Company, platted the new townsite about a mile from Collins.

Enrollment in the school system was reduced by two thirds and well over half the townsite houses, built to house plant workers, went vacant.