BlockVanished settlements of Chaffee County, Colorado
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Chaffee County, Colorado that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | on Baldwin Creek, Saint Elmo quadrangle | 10.0 miles east of Centerville | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Hancock | near Mount Arps, Saint Elmo quadrangle | 7.1 miles south-east of Garfield | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Iron City | near Poplar Gulch, Saint Elmo quadrangle | 11.1 miles south of Garfield | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Nathrop | near Ruby Mountain, Nathrop quadrangle | 2.8 miles south of Centerville | 17 sheets, 1956 to 1994 | |
| Romley | near Pomeroy Gulch, Saint Elmo quadrangle | 9.5 miles south-east of Garfield | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Saint Elmo | on North Fork Chalk Creek, Saint Elmo quadrangle | 11.0 miles south of Garfield | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Shavano | on Cyclone Creek, Garfield quadrangle | 3.5 miles south of Garfield | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Shirley | on Grays Creek, Mount Ouray quadrangle | 6.7 miles north-east of Poncha Springs | 19 sheets, 1956 to 1994 | |
| Stonewall | near Pomeroy Mountain, Saint Elmo quadrangle | 6.6 miles south-east of Garfield | 20 sheets, 1940 to 1994 | |
| Swan | near Green Gulch, Nathrop quadrangle | 3.3 miles north-west of Centerville | 17 sheets, 1956 to 1994 |
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.