BlockVanished settlements of Custer County, Idaho
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Custer County, Idaho that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alder City | on Alder Creek, Big Blind Canyon quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-west of Rothas | 14 sheets, 1935 to 1991 | |
| Cape Horn | on Beaver Creek, Cape Horn Lakes quadrangle | 16.9 miles south of Grandjean | 17 sheets, 1891 to 1989 | |
| Cliff | near Chimney Gulch, Mackay Reservoir quadrangle | 4.2 miles north-east of Mackay | 14 sheets, 1935 to 1991 | |
| Crystal | on East Fork Salmon River, Bald Mountain quadrangle | 3.7 miles west of Clayton | 14 sheets, 1929 to 1989 | |
| Garden City | Challis quadrangle | 0.4 miles south-west of Challis | 11 sheets, 1956 to 1989 | |
| White Knob | near Bullion Gulch, Mackay Reservoir quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-east of Mackay | 14 sheets, 1935 to 1991 |
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.