BlockVanished settlements of Allen County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Allen County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 | Allen Springs quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Raley Ford | 13 sheets, 1921 to 1985 | |
| Mount Union | Petroleum quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-west of Forest Springs | 12 sheets, 1931 to 1985 | |
| Smyrna | on Smyrna Creek, Hickory Flat quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-west of Eubanks Ford | 12 sheets, 1928 to 1985 | |
| Stark Settlement | on Lick Branch, Meador quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Port Oliver Ford | 9 sheets, 1926 to 1985 | |
| White Plains | on Watkins Branch, Petroleum quadrangle | 1.5 miles south-west of Rodemer | 12 sheets, 1931 to 1985 |
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.