BlockVanished settlements of Trinity County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Trinity 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bragdon | near Moore Gulch, Trinity Center quadrangle | 5.2 miles south-west of Estrellita | 29 sheets, 1890 to 1998 | |
| Keno | near Lookout Ridge, Papoose Creek quadrangle | 2.8 miles south of Deadwood | 27 sheets, 1890 to 1998 | |
| Minersville | near Ridgeville Islands, Trinity Dam quadrangle | 0.7 miles north-west of Estrellita | 27 sheets, 1890 to 1998 | |
| Norgaar | on Little Bear Wallow Creek, Sportshaven quadrangle | 0.7 miles north of Graham Place | 16 sheets, 1918 to 1998 | |
| Stringtown | on Buckeye Creek, Carrville quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Carrville | 33 sheets, 1886 to 1998 |
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.