BlockVanished settlements of Santa Barbara County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 11 places in Santa Barbara County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
11A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acorn | on San Miguelito Creek, Lompoc quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-east of Ellwood Estates | 32 sheets, 1905 to 1989 | |
| Ahwin | on El Capitan Creek, Tajiguas quadrangle | 1.1 miles west of Capitan | 20 sheets, 1942 to 1995 | |
| Jalama | on Jalama Creek, Lompoc Hills quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Jalama | 29 sheets, 1905 to 1989 | |
| Kunuqug | near Wood Canyon, Point Conception quadrangle | 1.0 miles east of Concepcion | 16 sheets, 1942 to 1989 | |
| Mishopshnow | on Carpinteria Creek, Carpinteria quadrangle | 0.5 miles north of Carpinteria | 25 sheets, 1944 to 1995 | |
| Mission La Purisima | Lompoc quadrangle | 1.2 miles west of Vandenberg Village | 32 sheets, 1905 to 1989 | |
| Orella | near Cañada del Venadito, Tajiguas quadrangle | 0.4 miles east of Capitan | 20 sheets, 1942 to 1995 | |
| Palmer | Sisquoc quadrangle | 3.0 miles north-east of Sisquoc | 29 sheets, 1905 to 1989 | |
| Point Sal Landing | near Lion Rock, Point Sal quadrangle | 5.1 miles east of Waldorf | 26 sheets, 1905 to 1989 | |
| Roadamite | Sisquoc quadrangle | 2.4 miles north-east of Sisquoc | 29 sheets, 1905 to 1989 | |
| Shisholop | near Wood Canyon, Point Conception quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-west of Concepcion | 16 sheets, 1942 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.