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Vanished settlements of Park County, Colorado

The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Park County, Colorado that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

6

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
Dudleyon Sawmill Creek, Alma quadrangle1.0 miles south-east of Alma33 sheets, 1889 to 1994
Horseshoenear Little Sacramento Gulch, Fairplay West quadrangle4.7 miles east of Fairplay23 sheets, 1889 to 1994
Leavicknear Horseshoe Gulch, Mount Sherman quadrangle7.0 miles north-east of Alma Junction24 sheets, 1889 to 1994
Park Cityon Cooper Creek, Alma quadrangle1.7 miles east of Alma33 sheets, 1889 to 1994
Quartzvillenear Putnam Gulch, Alma quadrangle4.3 miles south of Alma33 sheets, 1889 to 1994
Trumpon Little Agate Creek, Agate Mountain quadrangle5.3 miles north-east of Balfour14 sheets, 1954 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.