Vanished settlements of Taylor County, Florida
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Taylor County, Florida that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atawalia | Snipe Island quadrangle | 3.3 miles north of Scanlon | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| Ilcombe | Nutall Rise quadrangle | 0.3 miles south-east of Scanlon | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| Nugalla | Manlin Hammock quadrangle | 6.7 miles north of Waylonzo | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| San Francisco de Oconi | Snipe Island quadrangle | 1.9 miles north-west of Mandalay | 11 sheets, 1954 to 1979 | |
| San Juan de Guacara | near Powell Hammock, Nutall Rise quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-west of Nutall Rise | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1979 |
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.