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Vanished settlements of Jackson County, Florida

The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Jackson County, Florida that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

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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
ButlerFairchild quadrangle4.9 miles north of Haynes13 sheets, 1954 to 1994
HyhappoRock Bluff quadrangle2.5 miles north of Shady Grove12 sheets, 1954 to 1988
OktahatkoSills quadrangle1.3 miles north-west of Sills14 sheets, 1952 to 1994
Osochinear Hickory Hill, Sneads quadrangle2.0 miles north-west of Ocheesee Gardens13 sheets, 1954 to 1994
TamathliSneads quadrangle0.7 miles north-west of Sneads13 sheets, 1954 to 1994
TocktoethlaFairchild quadrangle0.6 miles east of Haynes13 sheets, 1954 to 1994
YamasseeSneads quadrangle1.4 miles south-west of Ocheesee Gardens13 sheets, 1954 to 1994

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.