BlockVanished settlements of Lyon County, Nevada
The Geographic Names Information System records 19 places in Lyon County, Nevada that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
19A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artesia | Artesia Lake quadrangle | 6.0 miles south of Simpson | 23 sheets, 1891 to 1986 | |
| Bucklands Station | Churchill Butte quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-east of Davis Station | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1985 | |
| Cambridge | Pine Grove Spring quadrangle | 6.0 miles west of Pine Grove | 21 sheets, 1891 to 1988 | |
| Elbow Stage Station | on Rough Creek, The Elbow quadrangle | 9.9 miles north of Wichman | 24 sheets, 1909 to 1989 | |
| Eureka | in Eureka Canyon, New Empire quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-west of Mound House | 29 sheets, 1891 to 1994 | |
| Hoye | in Hoye Canyon, Oreana Peak quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-east of Wellington | 23 sheets, 1891 to 1986 | |
| Hudson | Smith quadrangle | 4.1 miles south-west of Smith | 23 sheets, 1891 to 1986 | |
| Johntown | near Long Canyon, Flowery Peak quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Silver City | 31 sheets, 1891 to 1994 | |
| Ludwig | Artesia Lake quadrangle | 4.4 miles north-east of Weed Heights | 23 sheets, 1891 to 1986 | |
| Marshland | Silver Springs South quadrangle | 2.3 miles south-east of Davis Station | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1985 | |
| Nevada Station | Silver Springs North quadrangle | 0.8 miles east of Silver Springs | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1985 | |
| Palmyra | Como quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-east of Como | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1987 | |
| Ramsey | Martin Canyon quadrangle | 5.8 miles south of Stagecoach | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1985 | |
| Stone Cabin | Como quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-west of Como | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1987 | |
| Sweetwater | Sweetwater Creek quadrangle | 11.7 miles north of Sulfur | 25 sheets, 1909 to 1989 | |
| Thompson | on Perazzo Slough, Wabuska quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-east of Wabuska | 21 sheets, 1891 to 1987 | |
| Tippecanoe | near Wilson Canyon, Wilson Canyon quadrangle | 3.8 miles north of Nordyke | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1986 | |
| Walker River | Smith quadrangle | 2.2 miles east of Smith | 23 sheets, 1891 to 1986 | |
| Weeks | Churchill Butte quadrangle | 2.4 miles south-west of Churchill | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1985 |
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.