BlockVanished settlements of Carter County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Carter County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Flats | on Beaver Flats, Beaver Flats South quadrangle | 7.8 miles north-east of Ekalaka | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Chalk Buttes | Chalk Buttes quadrangle | 16.4 miles south-east of Ridgeway | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Chausse | Piney Butte SW quadrangle | 15.2 miles south-east of Ekalaka | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Elgin | Camp Needmore quadrangle | 8.2 miles south of Belltower | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Midland | on Middle Slick Creek, North Slick Creek quadrangle | 14.5 miles north-west of Mill Iron | 11 sheets, 1954 to 2005 | |
| Pershing | Stagville Draw quadrangle | 9.2 miles north of Ekalaka | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Prairie Dale | near Soft Water Draw, Dead Boy Divide quadrangle | 7.3 miles south-east of Belltower | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1982 |
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.