BlockVanished settlements of Letcher County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 17 places in Letcher County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
17A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cowan | on Sturgill Branch, Whitesburg quadrangle | 0.7 miles north-east of Day | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1977 | |
| Bottom Fork | on Long Branch, Jenkins West quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of Kona | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Camp Branch | on Sugar Branch, Mayking quadrangle | 1.0 miles south-east of Polly | 17 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Crafts Colly | on Crafts Colly Creek, Whitesburg quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-east of Ermine | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1977 | |
| Craftsville | on Left Fork Millstone Creek, Mayking quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Millstone | 17 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Hubert | on Defeated Creek, Roxana quadrangle | 0.3 miles west of Defeated Creek | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1977 | |
| Indian Bottom | on Rockhouse Creek, Blackey quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-west of Blackey | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Kingdom Come | on Cottonpatch Branch, Roxana quadrangle | 1.2 miles north of Oscaloosa | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1977 | |
| Lick Fork | on Johns Fork, Jenkins East quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-west of Beefhide | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Line Fork | on Dry Fork, Roxana quadrangle | 0.0 miles south-east of Linefork | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1977 | |
| Little Colly | on Cow Branch, Mayking quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-east of Tillie | 17 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Marshal Branch | on Daniels Branch, Blackey quadrangle | 0.3 miles south of Sackett | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Milton | on Bear Branch, Louellen quadrangle | 0.1 miles west of Gilley | 23 sheets, 1887 to 1977 | |
| Smoot Creek | on Trace Fork, Mayking quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Tillie | 17 sheets, 1890 to 1992 | |
| Turkey Creek | on Cole Fork, Tilford quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Banks | 14 sheets, 1891 to 1977 | |
| Upper Cumberland | on Roberts Branch, Flat Gap quadrangle | 3.3 miles west of Eolia | 20 sheets, 1890 to 1977 | |
| West Whitesburg | on Sandlick Creek, Whitesburg quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-east of Whitesburg | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1977 |
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.