BlockVanished settlements of Elliott County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Elliott County, Kentucky 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaines Trace | on Mud Lick, Mazie quadrangle | 0.0 miles north-east of Edsel | 14 sheets, 1903 to 1982 | |
| Clay Fork | on Durham Fork, Ault quadrangle | 2.6 miles east of Gimlet | 8 sheets, 1950 to 1982 | |
| Devil Fork | near Doctors Knob, Sandy Hook quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Lytten | 10 sheets, 1950 to 1982 | |
| Fannin Valley | near Stamper Ridge, Ault quadrangle | 1.9 miles south of Lytten | 8 sheets, 1950 to 1982 | |
| Gomez | on Little Brushy Creek, Willard quadrangle | 2.3 miles south of Stephens | 15 sheets, 1903 to 1982 | |
| Shady Grove | on Durham Fork, Ault quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-east of Gimlet | 8 sheets, 1950 to 1982 | |
| Wells Creek | on Pruetts Fork, Sandy Hook quadrangle | 0.7 miles north-east of Bascom | 10 sheets, 1950 to 1982 |
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.