BlockVanished settlements of Marion County, Indiana
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Marion County, Indiana that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brightwood | on Brookside Creek, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-west of Woodruff Place | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| Clifford Park | on Brookside Creek, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-east of Irvington | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| East Brightwood | on Windsor Branch, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-east of Warren Park | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| Harrison Place | on Willow Brook, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 1.8 miles north-east of Millersville | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| Irvington | on Spring Brook, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 0.8 miles west of Benton House | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| Mallot Park | on Willow Brook, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Broad Ripple | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| Northwood | on Meadows Brook, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 2.2 miles north-east of Millersville | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 | |
| Robinson | on Woollen Run, Indianapolis East quadrangle | 0.2 miles east of Lawrence | 17 sheets, 1948 to 1998 |
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.