BlockVanished settlements of Phillips County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Phillips 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box Elder | in Box Elder Coulee, Sheep Coulee quadrangle | 4.0 miles south-west of Sun Prairie | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Brookside | Ester Lake quadrangle | 7.4 miles east of Phillips | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1984 | |
| First Creek | Dione Reservoir quadrangle | 6.4 miles east of Sun Prairie | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Fourchette | near Hardpan Coulee, Pea Ridge quadrangle | 9.0 miles east of X Crossing | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Greve | Thoeny Hills West quadrangle | 17.3 miles south-west of Whitewater | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Leedy | on Kill Woman Creek, Schuyler Butte quadrangle | 6.1 miles north of Dryer Place | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Legg | near Hawley Flat, Locke Ranch quadrangle | 9.4 miles north-east of X Crossing | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Lost Lake | Down Reservoir NE quadrangle | 12.4 miles north-east of Sumner | 7 sheets, 1920 to 1984 | |
| Lowrane | near Big Coulee, Morgan quadrangle | 3.8 miles north of Morgan | 7 sheets, 1920 to 1984 | |
| Regina | Emond Ranch quadrangle | 3.9 miles north of Old Whitcomb Place | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Trine | Bison Bone Reservoir quadrangle | 11.5 miles north-east of Midale | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Whitcomb | near Shell Butte, Zortman quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-east of Zortman | 9 sheets, 1943 to 1984 | |
| Ynot | Whitewater West quadrangle | 5.8 miles south-east of Whitewater | 7 sheets, 1920 to 1984 |
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.