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Vanished settlements of Etowah County, Alabama

The Geographic Names Information System records 31 places in Etowah County, Alabama that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

31

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
BannerBallplay quadrangle2.4 miles south of Reaves19 sheets, 1893 to 1981
Bennettsvillenear Little Wills Valley, Gadsden West quadrangle1.2 miles south-west of Happy Hollow22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Bensonnear Greasy Cove, Howelton quadrangle1.2 miles south-east of Ivalee19 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Black Creek Fallsby The Brow, Gadsden West quadrangle0.3 miles south of Bellevue22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Brannon Springson Greens Creek, Dunaway Mountain quadrangle0.7 miles east of Markton22 sheets, 1889 to 1984
Clear Springsnear Bald Hill, Hyatt Gap quadrangle0.1 miles east of Bethlehem21 sheets, 1889 to 1984
Coato Bendon Dry Creek, Ballplay quadrangle2.2 miles east of Ballplay19 sheets, 1893 to 1981
Etowahtonon Dry Creek, Dunaway Mountain quadrangle1.3 miles south-west of Williams22 sheets, 1889 to 1984
Greernear Aurora Mountain, Boaz quadrangle1.6 miles south of Aurora23 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Gum Springson Dry Creek, Dunaway Mountain quadrangle1.2 miles north-east of Old Harmony22 sheets, 1889 to 1984
Haleon Hollow Rock Branch, Ballplay quadrangle2.6 miles south-east of Ballplay19 sheets, 1893 to 1981
HaworthRodentown quadrangle2.0 miles south-west of Cox Gap22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Leath GapRodentown quadrangle2.0 miles north-west of Whitesboro22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Lewinnear Walker Hollow, Gadsden West quadrangle0.5 miles south-west of Curtiston22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Masingalenear Keeling Island, Glencoe quadrangle1.5 miles north-east of Burns Park18 sheets, 1900 to 1981
Mauldinon Hurricane Creek, Hyatt Gap quadrangle3.4 miles north-east of Moodys Chapel21 sheets, 1889 to 1984
MortonGadsden West quadrangle0.8 miles south-west of Tuckahoe Heights22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Nashnear Bald Hill, Hyatt Gap quadrangle0.6 miles south-east of Bethlehem21 sheets, 1889 to 1984
NisbitGlencoe quadrangle0.3 miles north-west of Glencoe18 sheets, 1900 to 1981
Nixon Byrd Creek, Hyatt Gap quadrangle0.9 miles west of Moodys Chapel21 sheets, 1889 to 1984
Oak Hillnear Bar Hill, Ballplay quadrangle0.6 miles north of Murrycross19 sheets, 1893 to 1981
Phillipson Payne Branch, Altoona quadrangle0.7 miles south-east of Walnut Grove22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Pull Tightby The Brow, Gadsden West quadrangle0.8 miles north of Bellevue22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Rheanear Big Wills Valley, Gadsden West quadrangle0.7 miles north-east of Moragne22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Rollinson McWhorter Branch, Rodentown quadrangle0.5 miles west of Fenton22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Royseon Reedy Creek, Rodentown quadrangle0.3 miles south of Pulltight22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
Schuleron Samuels Chapel Creek, Altoona quadrangle1.1 miles east of Boxtel22 sheets, 1885 to 1984
ShahanSteele quadrangle1.0 miles east of Shiloh22 sheets, 1889 to 1984
Smiths Bridgenear Penitentiary Hollow, Keener quadrangle0.8 miles south-west of Duck Springs20 sheets, 1893 to 1981
Stanfieldnear Rocky Hollow, Howelton quadrangle1.8 miles south-east of Ramsey19 sheets, 1885 to 1984
WilsonsGadsden East quadrangle1.0 miles south-east of Daisy18 sheets, 1893 to 1981

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.