BlockVanished settlements of Merced County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Merced County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbato | near Henry Miller Field, Los Banos quadrangle | 1.3 miles west of Los Banos | 15 sheets, 1921 to 1983 | |
| Arundel | on Dry Creek, Winton quadrangle | 3.1 miles south of The Grove | 17 sheets, 1917 to 1983 | |
| Bellevue | on Parkinson Creek, Merced quadrangle | 3.9 miles south-west of Fergus | 16 sheets, 1914 to 1983 | |
| Burchell | on Mariposa Creek, Planada quadrangle | 2.6 miles north-west of Planada | 15 sheets, 1918 to 1983 | |
| Cuba | Atwater quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Fluhr | 17 sheets, 1918 to 1983 | |
| Dickenson | Le Grand quadrangle | 3.0 miles north-west of Le Grand | 16 sheets, 1918 to 1983 | |
| Edendale | Winton quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-west of Amsterdam | 17 sheets, 1917 to 1983 | |
| Gadwall | Los Banos quadrangle | 3.7 miles south-east of Brito | 15 sheets, 1921 to 1983 | |
| Hoff | Atwater quadrangle | 1.4 miles south of Fergus | 17 sheets, 1918 to 1983 | |
| La Branza | Plainsburg quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-west of Athlone | 16 sheets, 1919 to 1983 | |
| Linora | Ingomar quadrangle | 2.2 miles south of Ingomar | 14 sheets, 1919 to 1983 | |
| Marguerite | Le Grand quadrangle | 5.6 miles north-west of Le Grand | 16 sheets, 1918 to 1983 | |
| Nairn | on Parkinson Creek, Atwater quadrangle | 4.2 miles west of Fluhr | 17 sheets, 1918 to 1983 |
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.