BlockVanished settlements of Salt Lake County, Utah
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Salt Lake County, Utah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennion | Salt Lake City South quadrangle | 2.0 miles south of West Jordan | 25 sheets, 1885 to 1999 | |
| Cottonwood | on Spring Creek, Sugar House quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-east of Holladay | 25 sheets, 1885 to 1998 | |
| Fort Douglas | near Red Butte Canyon, Fort Douglas quadrangle | 0.8 miles south of University Village | 27 sheets, 1885 to 1998 | |
| Lark | near Keystone Gulch, Copperton quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-east of Snyder | 19 sheets, 1885 to 1999 | |
| Redwood | on Mill Creek, Salt Lake City South quadrangle | 1.6 miles east of Roper | 25 sheets, 1885 to 1999 |
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.