BlockVanished settlements of Santa Cruz County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Santa Cruz County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma | Los Gatos quadrangle | 4.9 miles south of Laurel | 24 sheets, 1916 to 1978 | |
| Clems | near Mount Roberta, Laurel quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-east of Glenwood | 24 sheets, 1916 to 1996 | |
| Farley | on Trout Creek, Soquel quadrangle | 0.3 miles west of Rio Del Mar | 24 sheets, 1912 to 1983 | |
| Highland | near Skyland Ridge, Laurel quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of The Willows | 24 sheets, 1916 to 1996 | |
| Leonard | near Bush Gulch, Watsonville West quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-east of La Selva Beach | 27 sheets, 1912 to 1995 | |
| Magnetic Spring | near Blackburn Gulch, Laurel quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Bethany Park | 24 sheets, 1916 to 1996 | |
| New Brighton | near Tannery Gulch, Soquel quadrangle | 1.1 miles west of Capitola | 24 sheets, 1912 to 1983 | |
| Nuga | on Hanson Slough, Watsonville West quadrangle | 2.3 miles west of Port Watsonvile | 27 sheets, 1912 to 1995 | |
| Olive Springs | on Hinckley Creek, Laurel quadrangle | 3.1 miles north of The Willows | 24 sheets, 1916 to 1996 | |
| Petroleum | on Majors Creek, Santa Cruz OE W quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-west of Majors | 16 sheets, 1948 to 1974 | |
| Port Watsonville | Moss Landing quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-west of Port Watsonvile | 26 sheets, 1912 to 1983 | |
| Pueblo de Figueroa | on Carbonera Creek, Santa Cruz quadrangle | 0.3 miles south of Santa Cruz | 16 sheets, 1948 to 1974 | |
| Rapetti | on Moore Creek, Santa Cruz quadrangle | 1.6 miles north-east of Allegro Heights | 16 sheets, 1948 to 1974 |
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.