BlockVanished settlements of Hill County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Hill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brinkman | Rocky Coulee SW quadrangle | 18.5 miles north of Inverness | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Cypress | on Big Sandy Creek, Herron Park quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of Beaver Creek | 11 sheets, 1904 to 1984 | |
| Minneota | Laird Lake quadrangle | 5.2 miles north of Fox Crossing | 7 sheets, 1919 to 1984 | |
| Oscar | Shambo NE quadrangle | 7.0 miles north of Saddle Butte | 10 sheets, 1953 to 1993 | |
| Shambo | on Shambo Mountain, Bearpaw Lake quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-west of Shambo Springs | 10 sheets, 1953 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.