BlockVanished settlements of Humboldt County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 24 places in Humboldt County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
24A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brock Creek | on Brock Creek, Fort Seward quadrangle | 2.7 miles north-west of Oak Glen | 14 sheets, 1920 to 1979 | |
| Centerville | on Fleener Creek, Ferndale quadrangle | 3.9 miles east of Port Kenyon | 17 sheets, 1916 to 1987 | |
| Dyer Place | near Dyer Gulch, Orleans quadrangle | 4.4 miles south-east of Orleans | 16 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Dyerville | on South Fork Eel River, Weott quadrangle | 2.9 miles north of Englewood | 12 sheets, 1921 to 1979 | |
| Eddyville | near Cape Horn, Arcata South quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Freshwater Corners | 21 sheets, 1922 to 1987 | |
| Elinor | on Greenlow Creek, Scotia quadrangle | 1.2 miles east of Pepperwood | 12 sheets, 1919 to 1989 | |
| Elk Grove | on Boyes Creek, Orick quadrangle | 3.4 miles south of Berry Glenn | 12 sheets, 1945 to 1982 | |
| Erner | on Blue Creek, Ah Pah Ridge quadrangle | 5.8 miles south-east of Johnsons | 15 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Ertlerger | on Trinity River, Weitchpec quadrangle | 0.3 miles north of Weitchpec | 16 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Grizzly Bluff | on Van Duzen River, Fortuna quadrangle | 1.6 miles west of Waddington | 15 sheets, 1944 to 1987 | |
| Kworatem | on Donahue Flat Creek, Somes Bar quadrangle | 5.8 miles south-west of Orleans | 14 sheets, 1948 to 2001 | |
| Lockharts | near Black Mountain, Hopkins Butte quadrangle | 6.3 miles north of Orleans | 16 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Martins Ferry | on Rock Chute Creek, French Camp Ridge quadrangle | 0.6 miles north of Waseck | 17 sheets, 1925 to 1983 | |
| Opegoi | on Red Cap Creek, Orleans quadrangle | 4.0 miles west of Wright Place | 16 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Ore'q | near Orick Hill, Orick quadrangle | 0.1 miles north-east of Orick | 12 sheets, 1945 to 1982 | |
| Panamenik | near Wilder Gulch, Orleans quadrangle | 0.1 miles south of Orleans | 16 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Pekwan | on East Fork Pecwan Creek, Johnsons quadrangle | 0.1 miles north-west of Pecwan | 15 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Pekwuteu | on Muddy Creek, Weitchpec quadrangle | 0.4 miles north-west of Weitchpec | 16 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Shregegon | on Knulthkarn Creek, Johnsons quadrangle | 0.0 miles north-east of Surgone | 15 sheets, 1925 to 1997 | |
| Shumig | on Penn Creek, Trinidad OE N quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Patricks Point | 11 sheets, 1945 to 1982 | |
| Smith | on Beatty Creek, Myers Flat quadrangle | 1.8 miles west of Whitlow | 11 sheets, 1921 to 1979 | |
| Tanoak | on Cameron Creek, Myers Flat quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Whitlow | 11 sheets, 1921 to 1979 | |
| Tsurau | by Little Head, Trinidad quadrangle | 0.0 miles south of Trinidad | 11 sheets, 1945 to 1982 | |
| West Humboldt | on Elk River, Eureka quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-east of Fairhaven | 19 sheets, 1922 to 1987 |
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.