BlockVanished settlements of Ventura County, California
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Ventura County, California that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownstone | near Snow Canyon, Fillmore quadrangle | 0.2 miles south of North Fillmore | 29 sheets, 1900 to 1995 | |
| Kimballville | on Ventura River, Ventura quadrangle | 0.6 miles east of Ventura | 29 sheets, 1904 to 1982 | |
| Los Pitos | near Padre Juan Canyon, Pitas Point quadrangle | 0.1 miles south-east of Faria | 27 sheets, 1904 to 1982 | |
| Miscanaka | near La Loma del Cruz, Ventura quadrangle | 0.4 miles south-east of Ventura | 29 sheets, 1904 to 1982 | |
| Somis | on Arroyo Las Posas, Camarillo quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-east of Somis | 27 sheets, 1904 to 1982 | |
| Sucrosa | near Pleasant Valley, Camarillo quadrangle | 1.7 miles west of Leesdale | 27 sheets, 1904 to 1982 | |
| Teagueville | near Mud Creek Canyon, Santa Paula Peak quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-west of Sulphur Springs | 28 sheets, 1903 to 1995 | |
| Ternez | near Little Simi Valley, Moorpark quadrangle | 0.9 miles west of Lagol | 26 sheets, 1900 to 1979 | |
| Wene'me | Oxnard quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-east of Port Hueneme | 24 sheets, 1904 to 1982 |
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.