BlockVanished settlements of Owyhee County, Idaho
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Owyhee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carothers Place | on Horse Thief Creek, Antelope Spring quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-east of Spiry Place | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1992 | |
| Cottonwood | Wickahoney Point quadrangle | 2.2 miles south-east of Wickahoney | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1989 | |
| Empire City | on Lightning Creek, Cinnabar Mountain quadrangle | 2.9 miles north-west of Silver City | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Sands | near Jump Creek Canyon, Jump Creek Canyon quadrangle | 6.4 miles north-east of Marsing | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1989 | |
| Sinker | Sinker Canyon quadrangle | 7.0 miles north of Murphy | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1990 | |
| Tindall | on Rattlesnake Creek, Grasmere Reservoir quadrangle | 2.6 miles east of Dans Place | 7 sheets, 1955 to 1989 |
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.