BlockVanished settlements of Silver Bow County, Montana
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Silver Bow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allendale | Butte North quadrangle | 0.1 miles north-west of Walkerville | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| Anselmo | near Big Butte, Butte North quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-east of Centerville | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| Burlington | near Gimlet Gulch, Butte North quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-west of Rocker | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| Butchertown | Butte North quadrangle | 0.1 miles south of Walkerville | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| Highland City | on Wood Creek, Mount Humbug quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-west of Moose Town | 16 sheets, 1893 to 1996 | |
| North Walkerville | Butte North quadrangle | 0.1 miles north-west of Walkerville | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 | |
| Red Mountain | on Wood Creek, Pipestone Pass quadrangle | 4.2 miles west of Moose Town | 15 sheets, 1893 to 1996 | |
| Royston | near Gold Hill, Mount Humbug quadrangle | 2.8 miles north-west of Moose Town | 16 sheets, 1893 to 1996 | |
| Stringtown | near Harrison Gulch, Butte North quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-east of Walkerville | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1996 |
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.