BlockVanished settlements of Socorro County, New Mexico
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Socorro 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augustine | Augustine Well quadrangle | 21.8 miles north-east of John Padilla Settlement | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| Cherryville | near Wild Bull Canyon, Montoya Butte quadrangle | 4.9 miles north-west of Dusty | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1995 | |
| Craig | near Milligan Gulch, Fort Craig quadrangle | 4.7 miles north of San Marcial | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| Dusty | near West Red Canyon, Wahoo Ranch quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Dusty | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1999 | |
| La Joyita | on Arroyo Rosa de Castillo, La Joya quadrangle | 2.3 miles west of San Acacia | 10 sheets, 1916 to 1979 | |
| Monica | near Little Monica Canyon, Mount Withington quadrangle | 18.1 miles north-east of Magdalena | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1995 | |
| Paraje | Paraje Well quadrangle | 4.4 miles east of Hard Luck Crossing | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| Rosedale | near Bell Canyon, Grassy Lookout quadrangle | 19.1 miles south-west of Dusty | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1995 | |
| Tajo | near Arroyo del Tajo, Loma De Las Canas quadrangle | 2.5 miles north-west of Socorro | 15 sheets, 1906 to 1979 |
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.