BlockVanished settlements of Barbour County, Alabama
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Barbour County, Alabama that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
12A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Eddy | on North Fork Cowikee Creek, Eufaula North quadrangle | 2.5 miles north-west of Howe | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Black Gum Corners | Texasville quadrangle | 2.3 miles north of Texasville | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1997 | |
| Cedar | Twin Springs quadrangle | 3.8 miles south of Wylaunee | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Coal Springs | Elamville quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-east of Elamville | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Cole Ridge | Batesville quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-east of Mount Gilead | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Fairmount | on Bronson Creek, Batesville quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-east of Batesville | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Fields | Eufaula North quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of Tullis | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Knowlton | on Dowdy Creek, White Oak quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-east of Osco | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Laurel Grove | on Spring Creek, Mount Andrew quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-east of Garmon Crossroads | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Mount Olive | near Graveyard Hill, Clayton North quadrangle | 4.1 miles south-west of Clayton | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Poplar Springs | on Wilburn Creek, Batesville quadrangle | 2.8 miles east of Hawkinsville | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Spio | Texasville quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Texasville | 8 sheets, 1953 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.