BlockVanished settlements of Lewis and Clark County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 17 places in Lewis and Clark County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
17A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City | near Cellar Gulch, Granite Butte quadrangle | 4.0 miles south-east of Gloster | 22 sheets, 1889 to 2001 | |
| Belmont | Greenhorn Mountain quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-east of Skyline | 23 sheets, 1889 to 2001 | |
| Blue Cloud | near Nelson Gulch, Black Mountain quadrangle | 3.5 miles east of Broadwater | 26 sheets, 1889 to 2001 | |
| Clemons | on Poplar Creek, Bean Lake quadrangle | 3.4 miles east of Upper Ellis Place | 10 sheets, 1943 to 1995 | |
| Copper Camp | Arrastra Mountain quadrangle | 9.5 miles south-east of Lincoln | 12 sheets, 1903 to 2001 | |
| Daytown | near Cooper Gulch, Canyon Ferry quadrangle | 0.5 miles south of Cavetown | 18 sheets, 1886 to 2001 | |
| Dearborn | on Deadman Creek, Coburn Mountain quadrangle | 10.5 miles south-east of Craig | 11 sheets, 1943 to 1993 | |
| Dennison | near Log Gulch, Beartooth Mountain quadrangle | 6.6 miles north-west of Wolf Creek | 18 sheets, 1886 to 2001 | |
| Dotsonville | Helena quadrangle | 0.5 miles north-east of Broadwater | 30 sheets, 1889 to 2001 | |
| Ferris | near Nelson Gulch, Esmeralda Hill quadrangle | 3.0 miles north-east of Bald Butte | 24 sheets, 1889 to 2001 | |
| Frost | near Steamboat Mountain, Steamboat Mountain quadrangle | 11.7 miles east of Upper Ellis Place | 13 sheets, 1903 to 1995 | |
| Kenwood | near Mount Helena, Helena quadrangle | 0.8 miles west of Broadwater | 30 sheets, 1889 to 2001 | |
| Mike Horse | on Mike Horse Creek, Rogers Pass quadrangle | 9.6 miles south of Strom | 11 sheets, 1943 to 2001 | |
| Racine Ford | Nilan Reservoir quadrangle | 6.5 miles north-east of Split Rock Junction | 12 sheets, 1903 to 1995 | |
| Seven Mile | on Cherry Creek, Scratchgravel Hills quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Tobin | 28 sheets, 1889 to 1985 | |
| Silver King | on Bear Creek, Cadotte Creek quadrangle | 13.6 miles south-west of Lincoln | 11 sheets, 1943 to 2001 | |
| Trinity | Silver City quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-east of Silver City | 20 sheets, 1889 to 1975 |
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.