BlockVanished settlements of Riverside County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Riverside County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auld | near Bachelor Mountain, Bachelor Mountain quadrangle | 2.0 miles north-west of Country Road Estates | 36 sheets, 1901 to 1983 | |
| Caleb | on Box Canyon Wash, Mecca quadrangle | 1.8 miles east of Desert Camp | 28 sheets, 1904 to 1984 | |
| Myoma | Myoma quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-west of Bermuda Dunes | 28 sheets, 1904 to 1984 | |
| Rannells | Palo Verde quadrangle | 3.9 miles north-east of Ripley | 24 sheets, 1942 to 1986 | |
| Tosco | Blythe NE quadrangle | 2.7 miles west of Mesaville | 18 sheets, 1942 to 1986 |
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.