BlockVanished settlements of Lee County, Iowa
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Lee County, Iowa that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bricker | Nauvoo quadrangle | 2.8 miles west of New Boston | 15 sheets, 1936 to 1990 | |
| Buena Vista | on Hog Thief Creek, Keokuk quadrangle | 2.7 miles east of Keokuk | 17 sheets, 1936 to 1990 | |
| Bullard | Nauvoo quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Viele | 15 sheets, 1936 to 1990 | |
| Jeffersonville | on Painter Creek, Nauvoo quadrangle | 0.7 miles east of Viele | 15 sheets, 1936 to 1990 | |
| Keteban Switch | Farmington quadrangle | 3.8 miles north-east of Primrose | 12 sheets, 1958 to 1990 | |
| Russellville | Hillsboro quadrangle | 2.2 miles east of Houghton | 11 sheets, 1958 to 1990 | |
| Sugar Creek | on Sugar Creek, Wayland quadrangle | 3.7 miles north-east of Mooar | 17 sheets, 1903 to 1990 | |
| Summit | Fort Madison quadrangle | 2.4 miles north-west of Sawyer | 15 sheets, 1936 to 1990 |
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.