BlockVanished settlements of Orange County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Orange County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
12A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbondale | near Silverado Canyon, Black Star Canyon quadrangle | 2.4 miles east of Silverado | 40 sheets, 1901 to 1997 | |
| Daum | near Carbon Canyon, Yorba Linda quadrangle | 0.4 miles north-east of Carlton | 43 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| El Nido Mobile Home Estates | near Newport Island, Newport Beach quadrangle | 0.4 miles east of Cliff Haven | 47 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Gypsum | near Coal Canyon, Prado Dam quadrangle | 3.7 miles west of Esperanza | 39 sheets, 1901 to 1983 | |
| Miraflores | Anaheim quadrangle | 0.4 miles west of South Anaheim | 44 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Northam | on Brea Creek, La Habra quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Buena Park | 45 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Oleo | near Tonner Canyon, La Habra quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of Brea Chem | 48 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Olinda | near Carbon Canyon, Yorba Linda quadrangle | 1.7 miles south of Carlton | 46 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Santa Ysabel | Anaheim quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of La Jolla | 44 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Snug Harbor Trailer Park | near Newport Island, Newport Beach quadrangle | 0.3 miles south-east of Cliff Haven | 47 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Sugar | Newport Beach quadrangle | 0.4 miles east of Driftwood Mobile Home Park | 47 sheets, 1896 to 1983 | |
| Wanda | on Handy Creek, Orange quadrangle | 0.5 miles east of Villa Park | 46 sheets, 1896 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.