BlockVanished settlements of Marengo County, Alabama
The Geographic Names Information System records 19 places in Marengo County, Alabama that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
19A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrons | by Nanafalia Bluff, Pennington quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-east of Nanafalia | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1984 | |
| Beckleys | on Chickasaw Bogue, Myrtlewood North quadrangle | 2.3 miles south-east of Hill Top | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Blue Lock | on Greer Branch, Myrtlewood North quadrangle | 2.1 miles south of Hill Top | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Crenshaw | on Whites Branch, Thomaston East quadrangle | 2.4 miles south of Thomaston | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Ellison | Surginer quadrangle | 1.5 miles north of Surginer | 10 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Griffins | on Sixmile Creek, Myrtlewood North quadrangle | 5.1 miles north-east of Jefferson | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Hornsboro | on Sweetwater Creek, Putnam quadrangle | 3.0 miles south of Putnam | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1984 | |
| Kings | Thomaston East quadrangle | 1.0 miles east of Consul | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Lyon | Thomaston East quadrangle | 4.6 miles south of McKinley | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| McCorkle | Thomaston East quadrangle | 4.0 miles west of Dayton | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| McNeiders | Woods Bluff quadrangle | 2.8 miles north-west of Putnam | 12 sheets, 1953 to 1984 | |
| McNeils | on Sixmile Creek, Myrtlewood North quadrangle | 4.7 miles north-east of Pin Hook | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Moss | Miller quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of Wayne | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Old White Hall | on Poplar Creek, Thomaston East quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Thomaston | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Paces | Jefferson quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-east of Salt Well | 11 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Robinson | on Cypress Branch, Whitfield quadrangle | 4.9 miles north of Moscow | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1984 | |
| Tombigbee | Gallion quadrangle | 3.2 miles east of Siddonsville | 11 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Williamsburg | Magnolia quadrangle | 3.1 miles north-west of Octagon | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 | |
| Wootens | Thomaston East quadrangle | 2.0 miles east of Consul | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1986 |
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.