BlockVanished settlements of Lake County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Lake County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chewaucan | near Jones Canyon, Paisley quadrangle | 2.6 miles north-west of Paisley | 12 sheets, 1955 to 2004 | |
| Drews Valley | on Chandler Creek, Drews Reservoir quadrangle | 9.1 miles north-west of Quartz Mountain | 12 sheets, 1955 to 2004 | |
| Hot Springs | on Church Creek, Crane Creek quadrangle | 5.8 miles north of Lakeview | 11 sheets, 1955 to 2004 | |
| Vistillas | on Upset Creek, Drews Reservoir quadrangle | 11.3 miles north of Quartz Mountain | 12 sheets, 1955 to 2004 | |
| Yocum | near South Peak, Strawberry Butte quadrangle | 16.2 miles north-east of West Side | 12 sheets, 1955 to 2004 |
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.