BlockVanished settlements of Grant County, New Mexico
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Grant County, New Mexico that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
12A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alhambra | Bullard Peak quadrangle | 4.5 miles south-east of The Pines | 12 sheets, 1954 to 1999 | |
| Black Hawk | near Bullard Peak, Bullard Peak quadrangle | 4.2 miles south-east of The Pines | 12 sheets, 1954 to 1999 | |
| East Camp | Steeple Rock quadrangle | 15.4 miles south-east of Redrock | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1994 | |
| Faywood | Faywood Station quadrangle | 6.5 miles west of Whitewater | 13 sheets, 1909 to 1994 | |
| Gold Hill | near Z X Canyon, Gold Hill quadrangle | 12.7 miles north-east of White Signal | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1999 | |
| Ivanhoe | on Hanover Creek, Santa Rita Mine quadrangle | 0.9 miles west of Cobre | 17 sheets, 1909 to 1999 | |
| Malone | near Brock Ridge, Eagle Eye Peak quadrangle | 9.3 miles north of The Pines | 12 sheets, 1954 to 1999 | |
| Masons Mill | near Scott Peak, Twin Sisters quadrangle | 0.4 miles west of Redstone | 14 sheets, 1909 to 1999 | |
| Newton | near Lone Mountain, Hurley West quadrangle | 3.8 miles east of North Hurley | 12 sheets, 1909 to 1994 | |
| Santa Rita | on Santa Rita Creek, Santa Rita Mine quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Wimsattville | 17 sheets, 1909 to 1999 | |
| Steeplerock | near Telephone Ridge, Steeple Rock quadrangle | 17.6 miles south-east of Redrock | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1994 | |
| Telegraph | on Telegraph Mountain, Mangas Springs quadrangle | 7.9 miles north-east of Mangas Springs | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1999 |
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.