BlockVanished settlements of Jefferson County, Illinois
The Geographic Names Information System records 4 places in Jefferson County, Illinois that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
4A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fitzgerrell | on Ward Branch, Waltonville quadrangle | 1.7 miles west of Emerson City | 12 sheets, 1926 to 1998 | |
| Harris Grove | Spring Garden quadrangle | 2.9 miles north of Opdyke | 10 sheets, 1939 to 1982 | |
| Lynchburg | Opdyke quadrangle | 1.9 miles south of Opdyke | 12 sheets, 1933 to 1982 | |
| Pigeon | Harmony quadrangle | 2.1 miles north-west of Harmony | 11 sheets, 1933 to 1982 |
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.