BlockVanished settlements of Deer Lodge County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Deer Lodge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cable City | Silver Lake quadrangle | 1.8 miles west of Georgetown | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1996 | |
| Champion | near Gospel Hill, Lockhart Meadows quadrangle | 7.8 miles west of Galen | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| Fredrickson | Warm Springs quadrangle | 2.4 miles east of Galen | 21 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| French Gulch | on First Chance Creek, Lincoln Gulch quadrangle | 2.0 miles east of French Town | 12 sheets, 1955 to 1997 | |
| Gold Coin | near Daly Gulch, Silver Lake quadrangle | 1.8 miles north of Georgetown | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1996 | |
| Silver Lake | near Daly Gulch, Silver Lake quadrangle | 2.0 miles north of Georgetown | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1996 | |
| Southern Cross | Silver Lake quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-west of Georgetown | 16 sheets, 1908 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.