BlockVanished settlements of Jefferson County, Alabama
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Jefferson County, Alabama that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullard Shoals | on Fivemile Creek, Concord quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of McAdory | 20 sheets, 1899 to 1984 | |
| Cedar Grove | Leeds quadrangle | 1.1 miles north of Cahaba Hills | 27 sheets, 1889 to 1998 | |
| Cunningham | on Black Creek, Gardendale quadrangle | 1.8 miles south of New Castle | 27 sheets, 1889 to 1984 | |
| East Trussville | on Little Cahaba Creek, Argo quadrangle | 0.2 miles north of Southern Acres | 27 sheets, 1889 to 1984 | |
| Thermal | on Self Creek, Trafford quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Trafford | 23 sheets, 1889 to 1984 |
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.