BlockVanished settlements of Beaverhead County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Beaverhead County, Montana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstead | Red Rock quadrangle | 5.4 miles south-east of Red Rock | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1992 | |
| Birch Creek | near Greenstone Gulch, Glen quadrangle | 1.9 miles south of Apex | 17 sheets, 1893 to 1997 | |
| Centerville | near Hangmans Gulch, Bannack quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-west of Bannack | 19 sheets, 1893 to 1997 | |
| Coolidge | Elkhorn Hot Springs quadrangle | 0.0 miles of Elkhorn | 13 sheets, 1955 to 2005 | |
| East Bench | near Hoffman Gulch, Dillon East quadrangle | 4.0 miles south-west of Dillon | 16 sheets, 1893 to 1983 | |
| Fairview | Dillon East quadrangle | 2.7 miles east of Bishop Place | 16 sheets, 1893 to 1983 | |
| Lion City | near Cleve Mountain, Mount Tahepia quadrangle | 7.7 miles east of Glendale | 18 sheets, 1893 to 1997 | |
| Moosehorn | on Big Moosehorn Creek, Isaac Meadows quadrangle | 15.1 miles east of Wisdom | 11 sheets, 1955 to 1997 | |
| Nicholia | near Henderson Gulch, Island Butte quadrangle | 13.7 miles north-west of Hildreth | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1997 | |
| Yankee Flat | near Hangmans Gulch, Bannack quadrangle | 0.2 miles north of Bannack | 19 sheets, 1893 to 1997 |
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.