BlockVanished settlements of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Rio Arriba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biggs | near Boyer Gulch, Monero quadrangle | 3.5 miles west of Monero | 13 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Burns Canyon | near Gallina Mountain, Llaves quadrangle | 7.9 miles south-west of Llaves | 14 sheets, 1909 to 2002 | |
| Diamante | near Briggs Mesa, Monero quadrangle | 3.0 miles south-west of Monero | 13 sheets, 1954 to 1983 | |
| Hopewell | near Gallina Mountain, Llaves quadrangle | 7.9 miles south-west of Llaves | 14 sheets, 1909 to 2002 | |
| La Cueva | on Cañada de la Cueva, Ojo Caliente quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of La Madera | 12 sheets, 1918 to 1995 | |
| Pounds | Cement Lake quadrangle | 16.4 miles south of Tapicitoes | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1980 | |
| Rosa | Bancos Mesa NW quadrangle | 9.3 miles east of Carracas | 17 sheets, 1889 to 1980 | |
| San Antonio | on Cañada Tio Grande, Broke Off Mountain quadrangle | 6.9 miles north of San Miguel | 12 sheets, 1918 to 1995 | |
| Vaqueros | near Marcial Canyon, Bixler Ranch quadrangle | 15.0 miles north-east of Navajo | 16 sheets, 1889 to 1995 |
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.