BlockVanished settlements of Inyo County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 14 places in Inyo County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
14A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashford Mill | near Shore Line Butte, Shore Line Butte quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of Ashford Junction | 21 sheets, 1933 to 1993 | |
| Chloride City | by Chloride Cliff, Chloride City quadrangle | 8.9 miles south of Beatty Junction | 26 sheets, 1908 to 1988 | |
| Chrysopolis | on Hines Slough, Blackrock quadrangle | 3.0 miles south-west of Blackrock | 34 sheets, 1907 to 1994 | |
| Elna | Tinemaha Reservoir quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-west of Fish Springs | 27 sheets, 1913 to 1994 | |
| Furnace | Dantes View quadrangle | 6.3 miles north-west of Badwater | 25 sheets, 1908 to 1988 | |
| Greenwater | Greenwater Canyon quadrangle | 9.1 miles west of Badwater | 24 sheets, 1908 to 1987 | |
| Lane Mill | near Ophir Mountain, Darwin quadrangle | 1.5 miles south-west of Darwin | 27 sheets, 1908 to 1987 | |
| Lila C | West of Eagle Mountain quadrangle | 6.3 miles north-east of Death Valley Junction | 24 sheets, 1908 to 1988 | |
| Lookout City | near Stone Canyon, Revenue Canyon quadrangle | 6.7 miles north of Panamint Springs | 26 sheets, 1908 to 1985 | |
| Millspaugh | Maturango Peak quadrangle | 0.1 miles east of Millspaugh | 25 sheets, 1908 to 1985 | |
| Reilly | Maturango Peak SE quadrangle | 5.8 miles north-west of Millspaugh | 25 sheets, 1908 to 1985 | |
| Schwaub | Lees Camp quadrangle | 7.3 miles west of Park Village | 24 sheets, 1908 to 1987 | |
| Skidoo | Emigrant Canyon quadrangle | 5.3 miles south of Harrisburg | 28 sheets, 1908 to 1986 | |
| Sunland | Bishop quadrangle | 2.2 miles north of Bishop Trail Park | 26 sheets, 1913 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.