BlockVanished settlements of McCone County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in McCone County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus Flat | Fort Peck quadrangle | 28.7 miles east of Prairie Elk Colony | 11 sheets, 1914 to 1984 | |
| Coal Creek | near Devils Table Rock, Rodgers Hall quadrangle | 9.2 miles north-east of Weldon | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Hamblin | Hudiburgh Reservoir NW quadrangle | 12.1 miles south-west of Weldon | 5 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Lost Creek | Hudiburgh Reservoir SE quadrangle | 6.9 miles south of Circle | 5 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| McCone City | Fort Peck quadrangle | 28.6 miles east of Prairie Elk Colony | 11 sheets, 1914 to 1984 | |
| Paris | Flowing Well quadrangle | 13.8 miles east of Watkins | 7 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Pearmond | on Prairie Elk Creek, Flynn Creek South quadrangle | 2.9 miles east of Prairie Elk Colony | 7 sheets, 1915 to 1972 | |
| Pleasant Valley | on U P Creek, Macon quadrangle | 10.4 miles west of Prairie Elk Colony | 6 sheets, 1916 to 1972 | |
| Prairie Elk | near Williams Coulee, Sadie Coulee quadrangle | 11.9 miles south of Weldon | 5 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Presserville | Vida quadrangle | 0.2 miles west of Vida | 5 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Redwater | on Spring Creek, Buffalo Creek quadrangle | 11.7 miles south-west of Circle | 5 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Sand Creek | Dailey Spring quadrangle | 7.9 miles east of Vida | 5 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| White | Cemetery Coulee quadrangle | 8.3 miles south-east of Watkins | 7 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.