BlockVanished settlements of Wallowa County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Wallowa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alder | on Scotch Creek, Enterprise quadrangle | 2.1 miles north-east of Enterprise | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Armin | on Coyote Creek, Harl Butte quadrangle | 10.0 miles south-east of Fruita | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1990 | |
| Chico | on Sumac Creek, Roberts Butte quadrangle | 4.1 miles south-east of Lewis | 12 sheets, 1955 to 1990 | |
| Copper | on Copper Creek, Wolf Creek quadrangle | 19.1 miles south-west of Imnaha | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1980 | |
| Eustis | near Deerings Meadow, Howard Butte quadrangle | 5.3 miles east of Maxville | 11 sheets, 1955 to 1982 | |
| Grossman | near Ray Flat, Promise quadrangle | 3.1 miles north-east of Promise | 10 sheets, 1955 to 1995 |
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.