BlockVanished settlements of Golden Valley County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Golden Valley County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodgetown | Ryegate West quadrangle | 1.2 miles west of Barber | 11 sheets, 1889 to 1993 | |
| Emory | Emory School quadrangle | 15.1 miles west of Rothiemay | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Sahara | Patterson Canyon quadrangle | 14.7 miles south of Rothiemay | 12 sheets, 1889 to 1995 | |
| Seventynine | Locomotive Butte quadrangle | 7.6 miles north of Golden Valley Colony | 11 sheets, 1889 to 1993 | |
| Slayton Junction | on Ninemile Creek, Cushman quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-east of Cushman | 11 sheets, 1889 to 1993 |
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.