BlockVanished settlements of Sherman County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Sherman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boardman | Moro quadrangle | 4.6 miles south of Rutledge | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Early | near Biglow Canyon, Quinton quadrangle | 7.9 miles south of Klondike | 10 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Emigrant Springs | Klondike quadrangle | 3.7 miles south-west of Klondike | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1980 | |
| Fargher | near Buck Hollow, Sherars Bridge quadrangle | 13.3 miles north-east of Grass Valley | 13 sheets, 1930 to 1983 | |
| Sinks | Klondike quadrangle | 2.4 miles south of Klondike | 9 sheets, 1953 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.