BlockVanished settlements of Daviess County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 13 places in Daviess County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
13A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem | on May String Branch, Maceo quadrangle | 1.7 miles east of Scythia | 16 sheets, 1903 to 1991 | |
| Chestnut Grove | near Iron Ore Hill, Lewisport quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-west of Yelvington | 18 sheets, 1903 to 1991 | |
| Covent Gardens | Owensboro East quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-west of Locust Hills | 18 sheets, 1901 to 1991 | |
| Crow | near Sutherland Hill (historical), Panther quadrangle | 0.4 miles east of Sutherland | 15 sheets, 1906 to 1991 | |
| Haywood Chapel | on Little Blackford Creek, Lewisport quadrangle | 3.0 miles south of Maceo | 18 sheets, 1903 to 1991 | |
| Hickman | near Sutherland Hill (historical), Sutherland quadrangle | 0.7 miles south of Browns Valley | 17 sheets, 1906 to 1991 | |
| Laketown | Yankeetown quadrangle | 2.8 miles south of Newman | 17 sheets, 1905 to 1991 | |
| Mattingly | near Little Hurricane Island, Owensboro West quadrangle | 3.2 miles south-east of Owensboro | 19 sheets, 1901 to 1991 | |
| Mount Zion | on May String Branch, Maceo quadrangle | 1.7 miles north-west of Spice Knob | 16 sheets, 1903 to 1991 | |
| Pates | near Pup Creek Bar (historical), Owensboro East quadrangle | 1.7 miles south of Thruston | 18 sheets, 1901 to 1991 | |
| Saint Lawrence | Pellville quadrangle | 2.3 miles west of Knottsville | 17 sheets, 1903 to 1991 | |
| Saint Raphael | on Old Panther Creek, Panther quadrangle | 2.1 miles west of West Louisville | 15 sheets, 1906 to 1991 | |
| Sauer | on Long Pond Slough, Reed quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-east of Stanley | 14 sheets, 1905 to 1991 |
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.