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Vanished settlements of Mono County, California

The Geographic Names Information System records 4 places in Mono County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

4

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
Bennettvilleon Mine Creek, Tioga Pass quadrangle6.3 miles north of Lundy32 sheets, 1901 to 1994
Dog Townon Dog Creek, Big Alkali quadrangle1.3 miles north of Willow Springs24 sheets, 1909 to 1989
Mill Citynear Panorama Dome, Bloody Mountain quadrangle0.6 miles north-east of Old Mammoth29 sheets, 1914 to 1994
Mono Villageon Horse Creek, Buckeye Ridge quadrangle1.5 miles east of Twin Lakes25 sheets, 1909 to 1990

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.