BlockVanished settlements of Kenton County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Kenton County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | Covington quadrangle | 0.2 miles east of Park Hills | 18 sheets, 1914 to 1986 | |
| Cloud City | on Holds Branch, Covington quadrangle | 0.8 miles south-east of Sunny Acres | 18 sheets, 1914 to 1986 | |
| Sandfordtown | on Horse Branch, Covington quadrangle | 0.5 miles north-east of Lakeview | 18 sheets, 1914 to 1986 | |
| Sanfordtown | on Horse Branch, Covington quadrangle | 0.2 miles south of Sanfordtown | 18 sheets, 1914 to 1986 | |
| West Covington | on Licking River, Covington quadrangle | 0.2 miles west of West Covington | 18 sheets, 1914 to 1986 | |
| Winston Hills | on Banklick Creek, Newport quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-west of Sunny Acres | 19 sheets, 1898 to 1986 |
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.