While not technically an "antiquated plat," like I wrote about before (look at my earlier post for background), I found something very interesting in the maps prepared by TRPC for the city in their discussion of the old, planned neighborhoods.

At one point, the city had laid out block in what is now Capitol Lake. Here it is overlaid in Google Earth:

Probably the most interesting reading I've come across in the city council packets has been a discussion on antiquated plats and what to do about them. Basically, there are planned neighborhoods across Olympia that have never been developed.

Some of these neighborhoods were planned well before modern standards were in place, so there is a risk of some of these plats being developed with none of our modern standards enforced. We're not talking about plans that were laid out in the 1980s, this is more like the 1890s.

The city is going through the process now of finding these "antiquated plats" and scrubbing them from the books.

Pete Swenson from Thurston Regional Planning Council wrote a facinating memo on the topic. The entire piece is available here, but here's a bit:

Back in the 1930s the Olympia telephone book included numbers for Shelton, Hoodsport, Union, and a place called Pixley. I cannot find any other reference for such a settlement. Anyone out there in OlyBlogland know where this is/was?