BlockVanished settlements of Lake County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Lake County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barkerville | on Stanton Creek, Hough Springs quadrangle | 2.7 miles west of Hough Springs | 15 sheets, 1924 to 1996 | |
| Eastlake | near Rattlesnake Island, Clearlake Oaks quadrangle | 0.9 miles north of Clear Lake Keys | 21 sheets, 1924 to 1996 | |
| Guenoc | on Gallagher Creek, Middletown quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of Hidden Valley Lake | 19 sheets, 1945 to 1998 | |
| Howard Mill | near Elk Mountain, Elk Mountain quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Three Crossing | 17 sheets, 1922 to 1996 | |
| Kaci-badon | on Forbes Creek, Lakeport quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-west of Lakeport | 22 sheets, 1938 to 1994 | |
| Mirabel | on Bradford Creek, Detert Reservoir quadrangle | 3.7 miles north of Middletown | 24 sheets, 1927 to 1997 | |
| Witter Springs | near Elk Canyon, Upper Lake quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-east of Saratoga Springs | 21 sheets, 1938 to 1996 |
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.