BlockVanished settlements of Polk County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Polk County, Oregon that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowersville | near Cadle Hill, Dallas quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-west of Fir Villa | 13 sheets, 1942 to 1980 | |
| Carey | on Waymire Creek, Falls City quadrangle | 1.3 miles west of Falls City | 12 sheets, 1942 to 1980 | |
| Cochrane | Rickreall quadrangle | 2.5 miles south of Monmouth | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1980 | |
| Ferns | on Teal Creek, Airlie North quadrangle | 1.0 miles south-west of Bridgeport | 15 sheets, 1922 to 1980 | |
| Kingwood Park | on Chatnicka Creek, Salem West quadrangle | 0.3 miles north-east of West Salem | 20 sheets, 1915 to 1980 | |
| Putnam | on Little Luckiamute River, Airlie North quadrangle | 3.0 miles west of Lewisville | 15 sheets, 1922 to 1980 | |
| Tucker | Ballston quadrangle | 1.2 miles east of Broadmead | 17 sheets, 1942 to 1980 | |
| Valsetz | on Fanno Creek, Valsetz quadrangle | 8.1 miles east of Black Rock | 11 sheets, 1942 to 1980 |
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.