BlockVanished settlements of Josephine County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Josephine County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allentown | near Allen Gulch, Takilma quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-east of Takilma | 17 sheets, 1917 to 1996 | |
| Althouse | near Democrat Gulch, Holland quadrangle | 1.5 miles west of Bridgeview | 17 sheets, 1917 to 1996 | |
| Brown City | near Long Gulch, O'Brien quadrangle | 2.6 miles north of Takilma | 17 sheets, 1917 to 1996 | |
| Browntown | on Low Gap Creek, Grayback Mountain quadrangle | 11.5 miles north of Williams | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1996 | |
| Greenback | on Whiskey Bottle Creek, Golden quadrangle | 1.4 miles south of Placer | 17 sheets, 1904 to 1996 | |
| Williamsburg | near Bamboo Gulch, Williams quadrangle | 2.0 miles south-west of Williams | 16 sheets, 1908 to 1996 |
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.