BlockVanished settlements of El Dorado County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in El Dorado County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A place leaves this list only by being unmade: the post office closes, the mine works out, the road moves. The name stays in the federal gazetteer, flagged historical, and the topographic sheets that recorded it stay in the archive.
| Where in the county | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bamom | Shingle Springs quadrangle | 0.0 miles north of Shingle Springs | 32 sheets, 1891 to 1976 | |
| Buckeye Flat | Shingle Springs quadrangle | 0.7 miles west of Shingle Springs | 32 sheets, 1891 to 1976 | |
| Frosts | on Rubicon Creek, Meeks Bay quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Rubicon Properties | 30 sheets, 1891 to 1992 | |
| Indak | near Cedar Ravine, Placerville quadrangle | 0.1 miles east of Placerville | 34 sheets, 1891 to 1976 | |
| Jacobsen | on Jacobsen Meadow, Bunker Hill quadrangle | 10.2 miles south of Raffetto | 33 sheets, 1891 to 1977 | |
| Koloma | on Dutch Creek, Coloma quadrangle | 0.0 miles west of Coloma | 34 sheets, 1891 to 1976 | |
| Mosquito | on North Fork One Eye Creek, Slate Mountain quadrangle | 4.0 miles south of Five Mile Terrace | 31 sheets, 1891 to 1976 | |
| Rubicon Springs | Homewood quadrangle | 6.8 miles east of Meeks Bay | 32 sheets, 1891 to 1992 | |
| Salmon Falls | on Sweetwater Creek, Pilot Hill quadrangle | 0.7 miles north-east of Zee Estates | 27 sheets, 1891 to 1994 |
Provenance
- Which settlements are gone. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey. A place is listed here when the federal gazetteer flags its record historical; that is the government's judgement, not this site's.
- Where each one stood. The gazetteer's own coordinates, and the nearest named landform and quadrangle from the same file.
- Distance and direction to the nearest surviving place. Computed here from the gazetteer coordinates of both places, straight line, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
- Sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The count is of sheets covering the site, so it describes how often the AREA was surveyed and not how long the settlement lasted.