BlockVanished settlements of Cherokee County, Alabama
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Cherokee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Springs | on Mills Creek, Chattoogaville quadrangle | 0.6 miles south of Fullerton | 16 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Coloma | Ellisville quadrangle | 1.0 miles south-east of Ellisville | 18 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Grantville | on Ballplay Creek, Melson quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-west of Kirks Grove | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Kings Hill | near Byrams Island, Leesburg quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-west of Slackland | 19 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Mona | near Roberts Mountain, Ellisville quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-west of Old Coloma | 18 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Mount Zion | Little River quadrangle | 3.0 miles south-west of Sand Rock | 19 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Ricks | Weisner Mountain quadrangle | 2.3 miles south-west of Pine Grove | 18 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Sidhart | near Hawkins Hollow, Indian Mountain quadrangle | 1.1 miles east of Bluffton | 18 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Starkville | Lyerly quadrangle | 1.6 miles west of New Moon | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Sterling | Cedar Bluff quadrangle | 0.8 miles east of Farill | 19 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Turkey Town | on Terrapin Creek, Centre quadrangle | 1.1 miles east of Brooks Estates | 19 sheets, 1893 to 1981 | |
| Warner | near Davis Mountain, Borden Springs quadrangle | 2.7 miles north-east of Tecumseh Furnace | 17 sheets, 1889 to 2001 |
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.