BlockVanished settlements of Limestone County, Alabama
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Limestone County, Alabama that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caro | Ardmore quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-west of Bethel | 22 sheets, 1888 to 1984 | |
| Clifton | near Gardner Hollow, Salem quadrangle | 0.7 miles east of Gourdsville | 15 sheets, 1936 to 1986 | |
| Estaville | on Magnusson Branch, Elkmont quadrangle | 0.8 miles south-west of Holland Gin | 20 sheets, 1888 to 1984 | |
| Sand Spring | on Hauskin Branch, Ardmore quadrangle | 0.6 miles west of Oak Grove | 22 sheets, 1888 to 1984 | |
| Shoemaker Springs | on Maple Swamp Branch, Cairo quadrangle | 2.1 miles north-east of Pleasant Grove | 15 sheets, 1936 to 1986 | |
| Wooley Springs | on Tyrone Creek, Ardmore quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-west of Pisgah | 22 sheets, 1888 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.