BlockVanished settlements of Jackson County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 14 places in Jackson County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
14A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbestos | on Chapman Creek, Cleveland Ridge quadrangle | 6.6 miles east of Trail | 20 sheets, 1891 to 1998 | |
| Barron | on Barron Creek, Emigrant Lake quadrangle | 4.3 miles east of Buckhorn Springs | 22 sheets, 1891 to 1983 | |
| Cameron | on Little Applegate River, Ruch quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Ruch | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1996 | |
| Derby | on Quartz Creek, Obenchain Mountain quadrangle | 5.8 miles north of McLeod | 18 sheets, 1891 to 1989 | |
| Draper | near Moore Gulch, Mount Isabelle quadrangle | 3.5 miles north of Foots Creek | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1989 | |
| Dudley | on Dudley Mountain, Cascade Gorge quadrangle | 6.1 miles south of Butte Falls | 19 sheets, 1891 to 1997 | |
| Edsalla | on Cattail Creek, Obenchain Mountain quadrangle | 3.7 miles east of Butte Falls | 18 sheets, 1891 to 1989 | |
| Etna | on Long Branch, Shady Cove quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Shady Cove | 19 sheets, 1891 to 1989 | |
| Mountain View | on Nichols Branch, Eagle Point quadrangle | 1.5 miles south of Eagle Point | 24 sheets, 1891 to 1983 | |
| Perrydale | on Walker Creek, Medford West quadrangle | 0.8 miles south-west of Bybee Corner | 23 sheets, 1891 to 1983 | |
| Persist | on Cold Spring Creek, Whetstone Point quadrangle | 2.4 miles north-west of Bitter Lick | 21 sheets, 1891 to 1997 | |
| Spikenard | near Mill Hollow, Boswell Mountain quadrangle | 5.3 miles south of Beagle | 19 sheets, 1891 to 1989 | |
| Wellen | on Yankee Creek, Eagle Point quadrangle | 4.1 miles north-west of Eagle Point | 24 sheets, 1891 to 1983 | |
| Williams Creek | near Myrtle Gulch, Applegate quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Provolt | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1989 |
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.