BlockVanished settlements of Cascade County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 15 places in Cascade County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
15A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albright | near Dicks Gulch, Riceville quadrangle | 4.7 miles north of Riceville | 14 sheets, 1890 to 1995 | |
| Belton | near French Coulee, Belt quadrangle | 0.7 miles north of Belt | 15 sheets, 1890 to 1984 | |
| Benton Lake | Benton Lake East quadrangle | 8.3 miles east of Portage | 15 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Boston Heights | near Smelter Hill, Northeast Great Falls quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Smelter Hill | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Box Elder | Fife quadrangle | 3.1 miles east of Fife | 15 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Centerville | on Spruce Creek, Barker quadrangle | 9.5 miles west of Monarch | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1995 | |
| Donovan Park | Southwest Great Falls quadrangle | 2.6 miles south-east of Big Stone Colony | 14 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Flood | near Buckshot Island, Southwest Great Falls quadrangle | 4.0 miles north-east of Great Falls | 14 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Garrison | Ulm quadrangle | 2.8 miles south-west of Riverdale | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1983 | |
| Johnstown | on Sun River, Northwest Great Falls quadrangle | 0.8 miles east of Great Falls | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Little Chicago | near Smelter Hill, Northwest Great Falls quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-west of Black Eagle | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Michigan Settlement | Monarch NE quadrangle | 2.8 miles south of Monarch | 14 sheets, 1890 to 1995 | |
| North Great Falls | near Indian Butte, Northwest Great Falls quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-west of Smelter Hill | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1976 | |
| Saint Clair | Cascade quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-west of Cascade | 15 sheets, 1886 to 1983 | |
| Watson | Northwest Great Falls quadrangle | 2.7 miles south-west of Countryside Village | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1976 |
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.