BlockVanished settlements of Colfax County, New Mexico
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Colfax County, New Mexico 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawson | near Rail Canyon, Dawson quadrangle | 0.4 miles north of Capitan Hill | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1987 | |
| Deep Tunnel | near Aztec Ridge, Baldy Mountain quadrangle | 4.5 miles south-west of Virginia City | 15 sheets, 1954 to 1995 | |
| Hematite | on Hematite Park, Red River Pass quadrangle | 4.8 miles south-east of Elizabethtown | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1995 | |
| Loretta | near Stag Canyon, Dawson quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-east of Capitan Hill | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1987 | |
| Moreno | on Mill Creek, Red River Pass quadrangle | 2.4 miles south of Elizabethtown | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1995 | |
| Palo Blanco | near Laird Canyon, Palo Blanco Mountain quadrangle | 7.3 miles west of Chico | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1981 | |
| Perryville | on Tolby Creek, Touch-Me-Not Mountain quadrangle | 2.4 miles north-west of Eagle Nest | 13 sheets, 1954 to 1987 | |
| Sweetwater | Rayado quadrangle | 5.6 miles north of Sunny Side | 12 sheets, 1954 to 1987 | |
| Tafoya | near Las Mesetas, Lawrence Arroyo quadrangle | 6.5 miles south of Farley | 8 sheets, 1954 to 1981 |
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.