BlockVanished settlements of Kings County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 11 places in Kings County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
11A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banner | Hanford quadrangle | 0.6 miles north of Lucerne | 17 sheets, 1926 to 1993 | |
| Bean | Waukena quadrangle | 3.1 miles south-east of Corcoran | 19 sheets, 1928 to 1993 | |
| Cornwell | Riverdale quadrangle | 1.6 miles west of Hub | 18 sheets, 1924 to 1993 | |
| Cuneo | Stratford quadrangle | 3.3 miles north of Rossi | 21 sheets, 1929 to 1993 | |
| Hasset | Laton quadrangle | 0.7 miles east of Hardwick | 18 sheets, 1927 to 1993 | |
| Kimble | Hanford quadrangle | 1.7 miles south of Grangeville | 17 sheets, 1926 to 1993 | |
| Kingston | Laton quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-west of Hardwick | 18 sheets, 1927 to 1993 | |
| Lethent | on North Fork Kings River, Vanguard quadrangle | 2.9 miles east of Rossi | 19 sheets, 1926 to 1993 | |
| Millham City | on Arroyo Doblegado, Kettleman City quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-east of Kettleman City | 23 sheets, 1933 to 1993 | |
| Odessa | Hanford quadrangle | 2.3 miles north of Home Garden | 17 sheets, 1926 to 1993 | |
| Orion | Hanford quadrangle | 1.8 miles east of Armona | 17 sheets, 1926 to 1993 |
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.