BlockVanished settlements of Malheur County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Malheur County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
12A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bohna | on China Creek, South Mountain quadrangle | 12.2 miles north-east of Harper | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1993 | |
| Cake | on Emigrant Creek, Mormon Basin quadrangle | 8.5 miles west of Eldorado | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Caviness | Scratch Post Butte quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-west of Bonita | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Clover | on North Clover Creek, Clover Creek Ranch quadrangle | 8.3 miles north of Bonita | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Cord | on Duck Creek, Dowell Butte quadrangle | 16.3 miles north-east of Crowley | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1978 | |
| Dell | on Poison Creek, Jamieson quadrangle | 1.3 miles south of Jamieson | 11 sheets, 1950 to 1988 | |
| Home | Willowcreek quadrangle | 3.6 miles north-west of Dennis | 12 sheets, 1950 to 1988 | |
| Humboldt Basin | near City Gulch, Mormon Basin quadrangle | 7.1 miles west of Eldorado | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Malheur City | near French Gulch, Bridgeport quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Eldorado | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Paris | Vale West quadrangle | 5.4 miles north-east of Vale | 10 sheets, 1906 to 1993 | |
| Warm Springs | on Cottonwood Creek, Hope Butte quadrangle | 8.0 miles north-east of Willowcreek | 11 sheets, 1950 to 1988 | |
| Watson | near Red Butte Canyon, Diamond Butte quadrangle | 22.3 miles west of Crowley | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 |
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.