BlockVanished settlements of Pennington County, South Dakota
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Pennington County, South Dakota that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon City | near Spurgeon Gulch, Silver City quadrangle | 1.9 miles west of Mystic | 15 sheets, 1894 to 1957 | |
| Castleton | near Bobcat Gulch, Rochford quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-east of Mystic | 16 sheets, 1894 to 1998 | |
| Clara Belle Camp | near Saint Elmo Peak, Custer quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Oreville | 19 sheets, 1896 to 1977 | |
| Copper Camp | near Mercedes Gulch, Deerfield quadrangle | 3.1 miles east of Myersville | 16 sheets, 1894 to 1998 | |
| Fairview | near Cluder Gulch, Rochford quadrangle | 1.8 miles south of Mystic | 16 sheets, 1894 to 1998 | |
| Florence | near Long Draw, Nahant quadrangle | 3.0 miles south-east of Myersville | 15 sheets, 1894 to 1957 | |
| Frenchtown | near Horsely Gulch, Mount Rushmore quadrangle | 0.4 miles north-west of Harney | 21 sheets, 1894 to 1977 | |
| Hayward | on Iron Creek, Hayward quadrangle | 3.0 miles north-west of Harney | 23 sheets, 1894 to 1998 | |
| Pactola | near McCurdy Gulch, Pactola Dam quadrangle | 2.4 miles east of Johnson Siding | 18 sheets, 1893 to 1957 | |
| Sheridan | on Horse Creek, Mount Rushmore quadrangle | 4.6 miles south-west of Kennedyville | 21 sheets, 1894 to 1977 |
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.