BlockVanished settlements of Shoshone County, Idaho
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Shoshone County, Idaho 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borax | Lookout Pass quadrangle | 0.9 miles east of Tammany | 17 sheets, 1901 to 1999 | |
| Bullion | Lookout Pass quadrangle | 0.9 miles east of Tammany | 17 sheets, 1901 to 1999 | |
| Carbonate | on East Fork Willow Creek, Mullan quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-east of Larson | 17 sheets, 1901 to 1995 | |
| Dorsey | near Daisy Gulch, Lookout Pass quadrangle | 0.6 miles north of Larson | 17 sheets, 1901 to 1999 | |
| Kyle | on Rye Creek, Avery quadrangle | 2.0 miles north-east of Bogle | 12 sheets, 1914 to 1995 | |
| Masonia | on Douglas Creek, Masonia quadrangle | 5.4 miles north-east of Wardner | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1995 | |
| Nelson | on Graham Creek, Grizzly Mountain quadrangle | 5.3 miles east of Prichard | 18 sheets, 1901 to 1996 | |
| Pottsville | near Klondike Gulch, Lookout Pass quadrangle | 1.9 miles west of Larson | 17 sheets, 1901 to 1999 | |
| Steamboat | on Eighty Day Creek, Steamboat Creek quadrangle | 6.3 miles south-west of Linfor | 13 sheets, 1909 to 1996 | |
| Sunset | on Sunset Peak, Burke quadrangle | 3.0 miles south of Burke | 19 sheets, 1901 to 1996 |
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.