BlockVanished settlements of Lewis County, Washington
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Lewis County, Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crego | Curtis quadrangle | 2.1 miles north of Adna | 15 sheets, 1941 to 1992 | |
| Kosmos | on Steffen Creek, Vanson Peak quadrangle | 1.8 miles north-east of Glenoma | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1998 | |
| Mays | on Garret Creek, Rainbow Falls quadrangle | 0.3 miles north-east of Meskill | 15 sheets, 1941 to 1992 | |
| Reynolds | on McCormick Creek, Pe Ell quadrangle | 0.7 miles west of Walville | 14 sheets, 1941 to 1992 | |
| Riffe | on Simmons Creek, Morton quadrangle | 1.0 miles south of Alta Vista | 16 sheets, 1937 to 1998 |
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.