BlockVanished settlements of Roosevelt County, New Mexico
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Roosevelt County, New Mexico that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benson | Gammil Well NE quadrangle | 8.4 miles east of Upton | 7 sheets, 1954 to 1973 | |
| Eagle Hill | Milnesand NW quadrangle | 7.0 miles east of Milnesand | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1972 | |
| Eiland | Arch quadrangle | 3.0 miles east of Arch | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1985 | |
| Ingram | Gammil Well SE quadrangle | 7.0 miles north-east of Upton | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1973 | |
| Longs | Causey West quadrangle | 4.1 miles north of Rogers | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1972 | |
| New Hope | Pep quadrangle | 4.7 miles north-east of Pep | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1972 | |
| Red Lake | Dora NW quadrangle | 6.0 miles east of Dora | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1972 |
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.