BlockVanished settlements of Multnomah County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Multnomah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bertha | on Restoration Creek, Lake Oswego quadrangle | 0.3 miles north-east of Hillsdale | 21 sheets, 1914 to 1982 | |
| Fulton | near Toe Island, Lake Oswego quadrangle | 0.7 miles west of Burlingame | 21 sheets, 1914 to 1982 | |
| Plainview | Linnton quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Folkenberg | 24 sheets, 1915 to 1990 | |
| Riverview | near Dry Lake, Sauvie Island quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-west of Burlington | 23 sheets, 1915 to 1990 | |
| South Portland | near Toe Island, Lake Oswego quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-west of Hillsdale | 21 sheets, 1914 to 1982 | |
| Vanport City | near Hayden Island, Portland quadrangle | 0.6 miles north of North Portland | 33 sheets, 1897 to 1990 |
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.