BlockVanished settlements of King County, Washington
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in King County, Washington that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day City | on Woodin Creek, Bothell quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Woodinville | 26 sheets, 1895 to 1992 | |
| Edgewater | near Phinney Ridge, Seattle North quadrangle | 0.6 miles east of Wallingford | 31 sheets, 1894 to 1992 | |
| Hillman City | near Ohlers Island, Seattle South quadrangle | 0.4 miles south of Seward Park | 32 sheets, 1894 to 1992 | |
| Hongking | near Indian Point, Tacoma North quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-east of Manzanita | 24 sheets, 1897 to 1997 | |
| Latona | on Ravenna Creek, Seattle North quadrangle | 0.3 miles west of Wallingford | 31 sheets, 1894 to 1992 | |
| Nordrum | on Quartz Creek, Lake Philippa quadrangle | 9.8 miles south-west of Riverpoint | 18 sheets, 1921 to 1989 | |
| Ross | near Queen Anne Hill, Seattle North quadrangle | 0.8 miles north of Fremont | 31 sheets, 1894 to 1992 | |
| Vermontville | Vashon quadrangle | 0.0 miles of Glen Acres | 23 sheets, 1897 to 1997 |
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.