BlockVanished settlements of Mineral County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Mineral 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amador | on Cedar Creek, Idaho Gulch quadrangle | 0.6 miles north of Oliverville | 8 sheets, 1956 to 1999 | |
| Buford | on Little Joe Creek, Boyd Mountain quadrangle | 2.0 miles east of Saint Regis | 12 sheets, 1918 to 1999 | |
| Cedar Junction | on Lost Creek, Wilson Gulch quadrangle | 7.2 miles north-east of Superior | 12 sheets, 1918 to 1999 | |
| Cedar Mouth | near Berry Gulch, Idaho Gulch quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Oliverville | 8 sheets, 1956 to 1999 | |
| Crescent City | on Sunrise Creek, Lozeau quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-east of Quartz | 8 sheets, 1956 to 1999 |
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.