BlockVanished settlements of Pondera County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Pondera County, Montana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott Lake | Abbott Lake quadrangle | 2.9 miles west of Blair Crossing | 12 sheets, 1920 to 1985 | |
| Belgian Colony | near Telephone Hill, Belgian Hill quadrangle | 5.3 miles south-west of Williams | 12 sheets, 1920 to 1985 | |
| Broadhead | Dupuyer East quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of Pondera Colony | 12 sheets, 1920 to 1985 | |
| Erickson | Gallup City quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-west of Gallup City | 11 sheets, 1920 to 1985 | |
| Lone Tree | near Bullhead Valley, Cactus Flat quadrangle | 8.0 miles south-west of Williams | 12 sheets, 1920 to 1985 | |
| Midway | Conrad SW quadrangle | 4.8 miles south-east of Brady | 7 sheets, 1920 to 1984 | |
| Robere | Robere quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-east of Pierce Crossing | 12 sheets, 1914 to 1984 | |
| Sollid | Sollid School quadrangle | 16.1 miles west of Ledger | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Wingina | near Winginaw Valley, Belgian Hill quadrangle | 3.3 miles south of Williams | 12 sheets, 1920 to 1985 |
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.