BlockVanished settlements of San Joaquin County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in San Joaquin County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avena | Avena quadrangle | 3.1 miles south of Carrolton | 17 sheets, 1914 to 1989 | |
| Bellota | on Duck Creek, Linden quadrangle | 4.4 miles south-west of Linden | 24 sheets, 1894 to 1997 | |
| Eagle Tree | Isleton quadrangle | 2.2 miles north-east of New Hope Landing | 22 sheets, 1910 to 1993 | |
| Elliott | on Goose Creek, Lockeford quadrangle | 4.7 miles south-west of Peltier | 24 sheets, 1894 to 1993 | |
| New Hope | on Dry Creek, Thornton quadrangle | 0.0 miles west of Thornton | 24 sheets, 1894 to 1993 | |
| Taison | Thornton quadrangle | 1.7 miles north-west of Thornton | 24 sheets, 1894 to 1993 | |
| The Homestead | on Mormon Slough, Stockton West quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Stockton | 19 sheets, 1913 to 1989 | |
| Wainwright Village | Tracy quadrangle | 0.3 miles north-west of Tracy | 22 sheets, 1916 to 1989 |
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.