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Vanished settlements of Washington County, Idaho

The Geographic Names Information System records 2 places in Washington County, Idaho that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

2

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
Craneon Middle Creek, Granger Butte quadrangle15.5 miles north-west of Midvale14 sheets, 1894 to 1980
Heathnear Cuddy Mountain, Cuddy Mountain quadrangle5.5 miles west of Heath13 sheets, 1955 to 2004

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.