BlockVanished settlements of Jo Daviess County, Illinois
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Jo Daviess County, Illinois 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brinksburg | on Crooked Slough, Green Island quadrangle | 2.1 miles north of Whitton | 15 sheets, 1935 to 1984 | |
| East Stockton | near Simmons Mound, Kent quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Stockton | 14 sheets, 1937 to 1981 | |
| Millbrig | in Millbrig Hollow, Galena quadrangle | 2.7 miles east of Council Hill | 19 sheets, 1911 to 1984 | |
| Pitcherville | near Simmons Mound, Stockton quadrangle | 1.0 miles south of Stockton | 14 sheets, 1911 to 1984 | |
| Pleasant Hill | Elizabeth quadrangle | 2.3 miles west of Hanover | 14 sheets, 1911 to 1984 | |
| Sweet Home | on South Fork Apple River, Elizabeth NE quadrangle | 1.2 miles south of Millville | 14 sheets, 1911 to 1984 | |
| Weston | on Furnace Creek, Hanover quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-west of North Hanover | 18 sheets, 1911 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.