BlockVanished settlements of Fulton County, Illinois
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Fulton County, Illinois that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernadotte | on Francis Creek, Smithfield quadrangle | 3.5 miles south of Ipava | 18 sheets, 1918 to 1990 | |
| Civer | Canton quadrangle | 3.8 miles south-east of Saint David | 17 sheets, 1912 to 1995 | |
| Fulton Center | Canton quadrangle | 3.4 miles south-east of Bryant | 17 sheets, 1912 to 1995 | |
| Keeler | on Coal Creek, Saint David quadrangle | 1.7 miles east of Little America | 19 sheets, 1925 to 1990 | |
| Midway | Fairview quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-west of London Mills | 17 sheets, 1912 to 1995 | |
| Otto | on North Branch Otter Creek, Duncan Mills quadrangle | 2.3 miles south-east of Enion | 19 sheets, 1925 to 1990 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | London Mills quadrangle | 4.6 miles south-west of Avon | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1990 | |
| Troy | London Mills quadrangle | 3.9 miles east of London Mills | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1990 | |
| Virgil | Bushnell East quadrangle | 3.2 miles south-west of Manley | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1990 | |
| Waterford | on East Creek, Duncan Mills quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-east of Sepo | 19 sheets, 1925 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.