BlockVanished settlements of Webster County, Iowa
The Geographic Names Information System records 3 places in Webster County, Iowa that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
3A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypsum City | Fort Dodge South quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-west of Shady Oak | 11 sheets, 1923 to 1993 | |
| Flugstad | Duncombe quadrangle | 2.9 miles west of Duncombe | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1993 | |
| West Fort Dodge | on Elkhorn Creek, Fort Dodge South quadrangle | 2.5 miles north-east of Fort Dodge | 11 sheets, 1923 to 1993 |
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.