BlockVanished settlements of Custer County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Custer County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cutler | on Pumpkin Creek, Horse Creek quadrangle | 11.6 miles north-west of Ulmer | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Etna | on Prat Creek, Circle L Creek quadrangle | 12.0 miles south-west of Garland | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Foundation | Foundation Spring quadrangle | 8.4 miles north-west of Knowlton | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Hilcrest | Horse Creek Hill quadrangle | 15.3 miles south-east of Tusler | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Kimball | on Kitty Spring Creek, Tepee Butte quadrangle | 13.5 miles north-west of Mizpah | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Moon Creek | Moon Creek School quadrangle | 10.2 miles north of Horton | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Oneill | near Cut Coulee, Pennock Creek quadrangle | 8.7 miles north-west of Mizpah | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Sadie | on Whitetail Creek, Horton quadrangle | 1.6 miles east of Horton | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1983 |
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.