BlockVanished settlements of LaSalle County, Illinois
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in LaSalle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Falls | on Bailey Creek, La Salle quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Deer Park | 21 sheets, 1893 to 1993 | |
| Culton | Troy Grove quadrangle | 1.8 miles north-west of Peterstown | 20 sheets, 1893 to 1993 | |
| Freedom Centre | Prairie Center quadrangle | 2.7 miles north-east of Harding | 25 sheets, 1892 to 1991 | |
| Little Rock | on Clayton Run, La Salle quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Jonesville | 21 sheets, 1893 to 1993 | |
| Munson | Leland quadrangle | 0.8 miles south of Harding | 9 sheets, 1951 to 1985 | |
| Otter | Streator North quadrangle | 3.0 miles west of Richards | 11 sheets, 1925 to 1991 | |
| South Ottawa | by Shadow Bluff, Ottawa quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Ottawa | 27 sheets, 1892 to 1994 |
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.