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Vanished settlements of Musselshell County, Montana

The Geographic Names Information System records 4 places in Musselshell County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

4

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
Absheron Carpenter Creek, Queens Point quadrangle0.8 miles north-east of Queens Point9 sheets, 1954 to 1983
FattigDunn Mountain North quadrangle9.9 miles north-west of Gage6 sheets, 1954 to 1980
Republicnear Deadman Coulee, Roundup quadrangle0.6 miles west of Klein6 sheets, 1954 to 1979
WheatonTimber Buttes North quadrangle16.9 miles south-east of Camp Three6 sheets, 1954 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.