BlockVanished settlements of Marion County, Florida
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Marion County, Florida 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuscowilla | Flemington quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of South Side | 15 sheets, 1895 to 1978 | |
| Heijahs Town | Fairfield quadrangle | 0.9 miles east of Fairfield | 16 sheets, 1895 to 1978 | |
| Lake Weir | Lake Weir quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-east of Ocklawaha | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1978 | |
| Leroy | Cotton Plant quadrangle | 1.2 miles south of Rolling Hills | 17 sheets, 1892 to 1991 | |
| Paynes Town | McIntosh quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-east of Orange Lake | 17 sheets, 1893 to 1978 | |
| Rainbow Falls | Dunnellon quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-west of Rainbow Springs | 18 sheets, 1892 to 1991 |
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.