BlockVanished settlements of Chouteau County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Chouteau County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashmoor | Knees quadrangle | 12.2 miles east of Twin Hills Colony | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Aznoe | Shannon Bridge quadrangle | 6.1 miles south-east of Woods Crossing | 14 sheets, 1886 to 1987 | |
| Colony Bay | Day School quadrangle | 8.2 miles south-east of Loma | 7 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Eskay | Pigtail Coulee quadrangle | 7.3 miles west of Iliad | 7 sheets, 1954 to 1964 | |
| Genou | near East Knee, Knees quadrangle | 8.5 miles south of Woods Crossing | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Hopp | near Haystack Butte, Eagleton NW quadrangle | 5.7 miles north-east of Eagleton | 7 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Inga | Boggs Island quadrangle | 6.6 miles east of Verona | 12 sheets, 1906 to 1984 | |
| Lonesome Prairie | Kenilworth NE quadrangle | 8.5 miles south-east of Big Sandy | 10 sheets, 1906 to 1984 | |
| Lonetree | Geraldine quadrangle | 4.4 miles north of Geraldine | 13 sheets, 1890 to 1984 | |
| Ophir | on Marias River, Loma East quadrangle | 1.5 miles west of Loma | 14 sheets, 1890 to 1984 | |
| Patterson | Shonkin quadrangle | 1.2 miles south of Shonkin | 13 sheets, 1890 to 1984 | |
| Pleasant Valley | Fort Benton NW quadrangle | 8.4 miles east of Loma | 13 sheets, 1890 to 1984 | |
| Russell | Russell Chapel quadrangle | 3.3 miles south of Twin Hills Colony | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1984 |
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.