BlockVanished settlements of Wheeler County, Oregon
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Wheeler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antone | on Fred Creek, Antone quadrangle | 8.8 miles west of Spoos Mill | 15 sheets, 1932 to 1992 | |
| Caleb | near Rhine Hollow, Frog Hollow quadrangle | 3.2 miles west of Spoos Mill | 10 sheets, 1953 to 1990 | |
| Kinzua | on Searcy Creek, Kinzua quadrangle | 7.7 miles west of Fossil | 11 sheets, 1926 to 1987 | |
| Lost Valley | Lonerock quadrangle | 11.3 miles west of Fossil | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1995 | |
| Waldron | on Tamarack Creek, Toney Butte quadrangle | 1.8 miles east of Richmond | 12 sheets, 1926 to 1988 | |
| Waterman | on Waterman Flat, Frog Hollow quadrangle | 8.2 miles south-west of Spoos Mill | 10 sheets, 1953 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.