BlockVanished settlements of Walker County, Alabama
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Walker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Warrior Town | on Little Creek, Sipsey quadrangle | 0.7 miles south of Dilworth | 21 sheets, 1893 to 1984 | |
| Camak Mills | on Strip Pit Creek, Manchester quadrangle | 0.8 miles west of Manchester | 18 sheets, 1893 to 2000 | |
| Lockhart | on Frost Creek, Oakman quadrangle | 0.6 miles east of Corona | 17 sheets, 1893 to 1984 | |
| Mountain Valley | near Cowcumber Hill, Oakman quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Coal Valley | 17 sheets, 1893 to 1984 | |
| Pennsylvania Camp | on Japanese Creek, Goodsprings quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of High Level | 23 sheets, 1893 to 1984 | |
| Ruby | on Frog Ague Creek, Goodsprings quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-west of Cordova | 23 sheets, 1893 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.