BlockVanished settlements of Monterey County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Monterey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docas | near Coyote Canyon, San Ardo quadrangle | 5.0 miles south-east of San Ardo | 25 sheets, 1912 to 1987 | |
| Dunbarton | Prunedale quadrangle | 4.9 miles west of Las Lomas | 25 sheets, 1915 to 1983 | |
| Fort Ord Village | Seaside quadrangle | 0.8 miles south of Del Monte Heights | 30 sheets, 1913 to 1983 | |
| Gabilan | Gonzales quadrangle | 2.1 miles north-west of Chualar | 24 sheets, 1910 to 1983 | |
| Pleyto | on Copperhead Creek, Tierra Redonda Mountain quadrangle | 0.2 miles east of Pleyto | 24 sheets, 1919 to 1989 | |
| Sans | on Slickrock Creek, Alder Peak quadrangle | 6.2 miles north-east of Hunter-Liggett | 32 sheets, 1921 to 1995 | |
| Vega | Watsonville East quadrangle | 3.0 miles west of Watsonville Junction | 27 sheets, 1915 to 1995 |
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.