BlockVanished settlements of Warren County, Iowa
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Warren 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkson | Milo quadrangle | 2.5 miles north-west of Ackworth | 9 sheets, 1910 to 1984 | |
| Ford | on Middle River, Hartford quadrangle | 2.0 miles south-west of Hartford | 9 sheets, 1910 to 1984 | |
| Greenbush | on Skinaway Creek, Hartford quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-east of Palmyra | 9 sheets, 1910 to 1984 | |
| Hammondsburgh | Milo quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-east of Milo | 9 sheets, 1910 to 1984 | |
| South River Crossing | New Virginia quadrangle | 2.6 miles south of New Virginia | 10 sheets, 1950 to 1984 | |
| Summerset Junction | on Plug Run, Scotch Ridge quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Summerset | 11 sheets, 1931 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.