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Vanished settlements of Coos County, Oregon

The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Coos County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

5

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
Coos Cityon Southport Creek, Coos Bay quadrangle2.3 miles north of Millington21 sheets, 1896 to 1993
Etelkaon Grants Creek, Powers quadrangle0.5 miles south of Gaylord18 sheets, 1899 to 1998
Kings Landingnear Manning Gulch, Coos Bay quadrangle0.1 miles north-west of Delmar21 sheets, 1896 to 1993
Lampaon Waddington Creek, Bill Peak quadrangle3.0 miles north of Riverton21 sheets, 1896 to 1993
Leeon Middle Creek, McKinley quadrangle2.7 miles north-east of McKinley19 sheets, 1896 to 1993

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.