BlockVanished settlements of Black Hawk County, Iowa
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Black Hawk County, Iowa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Rock | Waterloo North quadrangle | 3.5 miles south-east of Armour | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Boies | Cedar Falls quadrangle | 5.4 miles south-west of Lamplighter Villa | 12 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Canfield | Dunkerton quadrangle | 4.1 miles west of Dewar | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Crain Creek | Waterloo North quadrangle | 2.6 miles south of Armour | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Edwards | Waterloo North quadrangle | 3.7 miles south-east of Dewar | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1984 | |
| Glasgow | Waterloo North quadrangle | 5.7 miles south-west of Lamplighter Villa | 10 sheets, 1954 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.