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Vanished settlements of Jackson County, Alabama

The Geographic Names Information System records 27 places in Jackson County, Alabama that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

27

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
Beachboronear Stovall Hollow, Princeton quadrangle1.3 miles north-east of Swaim22 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Berrysnear Maynard Cove, Scottsboro quadrangle1.0 miles north of Pikeville21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Browns Valleyon Horn Branch, Doran Cove quadrangle0.5 miles north-west of Bolivar23 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Copenhagenon Jones Creek, Bridgeport quadrangle2.4 miles south-east of Battery Hill24 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Cumberland Mountain Farm Colonynear Gizzard Point, Mud Creek quadrangle1.2 miles north of Skyline24 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Dodsonvillenear Ashmore Cove, Langston quadrangle0.9 miles south-west of Lakeview Beach20 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Dry Coveon Aspel Branch, Swearengin quadrangle1.3 miles west of Aspel21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Fairfieldon Pegues Branch, Wannville quadrangle1.9 miles south-west of Blackankle21 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Ferncliffnear Goodman Hollow, Dutton quadrangle1.1 miles east of Hodge21 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Graynear Wild Hog Hollow, Hollywood quadrangle2.5 miles east of Morris Mill23 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Greertonnear Skelton Hollow, Hytop quadrangle1.6 miles south-east of Hytop21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Hannahon Chisenhall Branch, Dutton quadrangle0.4 miles west of Rock City21 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Hymeron Slaton Branch, Stevenson quadrangle1.6 miles west of Cedar Grove22 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Indexon Little Jacobs Creek, Hollywood quadrangle1.5 miles north-east of Morris Mill23 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Jack Lanenear Skelton Hollow, Hytop quadrangle1.7 miles south-east of Hytop21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Kirby Creeknear Lead Hollow, Eureka quadrangle0.7 miles north-west of Cave Spring22 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Larkins Forkon Larkin Fork, Princeton quadrangle0.5 miles south-east of Swaim22 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Milannear Holland Cove, Estill Fork quadrangle0.2 miles west of Estillfork21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Mud Creeknear Houston Hollow, Mud Creek quadrangle2.7 miles south-west of Maynard Cove24 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Narrowsnear Tate Cove, Hytop quadrangle3.3 miles west of Hytop21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Padgettnear Toney Gulf, Hollytree quadrangle3.3 miles south-east of Hollytree23 sheets, 1888 to 1984
PiercetonLim Rock quadrangle2.4 miles north-east of Wininger21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Rorexon Gilbert Branch, Hollywood quadrangle1.2 miles north-west of Georgetown23 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Sautaon North Sauty Creek, Langston quadrangle0.9 miles west of Skyline Shores20 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Sunsetnear Letson Point, Hytop quadrangle1.3 miles south-west of Hytop21 sheets, 1888 to 1984
Talleyon Stringer Creek, Dutton quadrangle1.1 miles west of Macedonia21 sheets, 1886 to 1981
Yuccanear Devils Eyebrow, Stevenson quadrangle2.3 miles north-east of Yucca22 sheets, 1886 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.