BlockVanished settlements of Carbon County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Carbon County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonia | Red Lodge East quadrangle | 0.0 miles of Washoe | 15 sheets, 1944 to 1996 | |
| Cherry Springs | on Cedar Creek, Bridger quadrangle | 3.8 miles east of Bridger | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1989 | |
| Coalville | on Bluewater Creek, Fromberg quadrangle | 1.0 miles south-east of Fromberg | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1989 | |
| Dryhead | East Pryor Mountain quadrangle | 5.6 miles south of Hillsboro | 12 sheets, 1954 to 1996 | |
| Eagle | near Snake Gulch, Red Lodge East quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Bearcreek | 15 sheets, 1944 to 1996 | |
| George Place | on Morris Creek, Mackay Ranch quadrangle | 0.9 miles east of George Place | 14 sheets, 1898 to 1996 | |
| Golden | Hatcher Pass quadrangle | 5.6 miles south of Belfry | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1989 | |
| Linley | Roscoe quadrangle | 0.0 miles south-east of Luther | 13 sheets, 1932 to 1996 | |
| Scotch Coulee | Red Lodge East quadrangle | 0.0 miles of Washoe | 15 sheets, 1944 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.