A Geotab analysis counts more than 500 ghost towns statewide, with the densest cluster in Wilson County near San Antonio.

INDIANOLA, Texas — The romance of Indianola is hard to resist. Twice wiped off the face of the Earth by hurricanes, it was once the second-largest port on the Texas coast, after Galveston. For decades ...

INDIANOLA, Texas — The usually calm waters of Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf Coast hold the secret of a once thriving town that was literally washed off the map by not one, but two deadly hurricanes.

Caroll was born September 17, 1929, in Victoria, to Robert C. and Ada Thompson Schmidt. The Schmidt family came to Indianola, Texas in 1860 from Prussia and lived in that area until the hurricane of ...