BlockVanished settlements of Baker County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Baker County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn | near Freezeout Gulch, Blue Canyon quadrangle | 7.5 miles north-east of Baker City | 16 sheets, 1901 to 1993 | |
| Audrey | on China Creek, Unity Reservoir quadrangle | 9.2 miles south of Unity | 13 sheets, 1901 to 1987 | |
| Cableville | near Erin Meadow, Mount Ireland quadrangle | 4.2 miles south-east of Bourne | 13 sheets, 1901 to 1987 | |
| Carroll | near Patrick Meadow, Whitney quadrangle | 7.9 miles north-west of Greenhorn | 13 sheets, 1901 to 1987 | |
| Conner Creek | near Quaking Aspen Flat, Connor Creek quadrangle | 10.1 miles south-west of Weatherby | 13 sheets, 1915 to 1987 | |
| Cracker City | on Little Cracker Creek, Bourne quadrangle | 0.5 miles east of Bourne | 14 sheets, 1901 to 1987 | |
| Erwin | on Houghton Creek, Sawtooth Ridge quadrangle | 1.2 miles south-east of Keating | 14 sheets, 1901 to 1981 | |
| Estes | near Spring Grove Gulch, Baker City quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of Baker City | 15 sheets, 1901 to 1994 | |
| Jett | on Jett Creek, Lime quadrangle | 1.4 miles south of Lime | 11 sheets, 1951 to 1988 | |
| Oxbow | on Pine Creek, Oxbow quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-west of Oxbow | 13 sheets, 1955 to 2004 | |
| Parkersville | on Cub Creek, Greenhorn quadrangle | 3.6 miles west of Greenhorn | 14 sheets, 1901 to 1995 | |
| Pocahontas | Wingville quadrangle | 3.0 miles north-east of Wingville | 15 sheets, 1901 to 1993 | |
| Whitney | on Dry Creek, Whitney quadrangle | 7.4 miles north-east of Sumpter | 13 sheets, 1901 to 1987 |
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.