BlockVanished settlements of Petroleum County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Petroleum County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blakeslee | Teigen NW quadrangle | 11.5 miles south of Teigen | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1986 | |
| Dovetail | near Lane Coulee, Davis Spring quadrangle | 11.3 miles north of Woods Place | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1986 | |
| Hoyle | near Bull Springs Coulee, Ingals Dam quadrangle | 8.4 miles north-east of Cat Creek | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1986 | |
| Jitney | Cat Creek quadrangle | 3.2 miles north of Cat Creek | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1986 | |
| Muscleshell City | Germaine Coulee West quadrangle | 11.3 miles west of Woods Place | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Shay | Ingals Dam quadrangle | 7.1 miles east of Cat Creek | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1986 | |
| Wallview | Flatwillow quadrangle | 5.6 miles north-east of Flatwillow | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| Weede | on Flatwillow Creek, Mosby quadrangle | 10.8 miles north of Cat Creek | 9 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.