BlockVanished settlements of Summit County, Colorado
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Summit County, Colorado that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyersville | Boreas Pass quadrangle | 3.3 miles west of Blue River | 23 sheets, 1937 to 1994 | |
| Kokomo | near Searle Gulch, Copper Mountain quadrangle | 6.2 miles north-east of Wheeler Junction | 32 sheets, 1889 to 1983 | |
| Parkville | near Georgia Gulch, Boreas Pass quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-west of Lincoln | 23 sheets, 1937 to 1994 | |
| Preston | near Gibson Hill, Breckenridge quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-west of Breckenridge | 31 sheets, 1889 to 1983 | |
| Rexford | near Garibaldi Gulch, Keystone quadrangle | 3.6 miles north-east of Montezuma | 33 sheets, 1924 to 1983 | |
| Saints John | near Glacier Mountain, Keystone quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-east of Montezuma | 33 sheets, 1924 to 1983 | |
| Tiger | near Brown Gulch, Keystone quadrangle | 2.7 miles south-west of Lincoln | 33 sheets, 1924 to 1983 |
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.