BlockVanished settlements of Marion County, Iowa
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Marion County, Iowa that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud | on Wildcat Creek, Melcher-Dallas quadrangle | 3.5 miles north of Melcher-Dallas | 10 sheets, 1924 to 1984 | |
| Cordova | on Brush Creek, Otley quadrangle | 3.9 miles north-east of Otley | 11 sheets, 1909 to 1984 | |
| Donley Station | on Butcher Creek, Knoxville SW quadrangle | 0.1 miles north-west of Donnelley | 10 sheets, 1909 to 1984 | |
| Eifield | on Wildcat Creek, Otley quadrangle | 3.3 miles north of Otley | 11 sheets, 1909 to 1984 | |
| Howell | Pella quadrangle | 3.4 miles north-east of Pella | 11 sheets, 1910 to 1982 | |
| Morgin Valley | Pleasantville quadrangle | 2.0 miles south-west of Swan | 9 sheets, 1910 to 1984 | |
| Percy | on Sugar Creek, Pleasantville quadrangle | 3.3 miles west of Swan | 9 sheets, 1910 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.