BlockVanished settlements of Magoffin County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Magoffin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| College Heights | on Oxier Branch, Salyersville South quadrangle | 0.9 miles north of Salyersville | 14 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Craft Fork | on Boardtree Fork, Seitz quadrangle | 0.0 miles of Crafts Fork | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Dixie | on Horsepen Fork, Salyersville South quadrangle | 0.4 miles north-east of Salyersville | 14 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Painters Lick | on Painters Lick Branch, Oil Springs quadrangle | 1.7 miles west of Falcon | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1992 | |
| Puncheon | on Left Fork Puncheon Creek, Seitz quadrangle | 1.5 miles east of Seitz | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Right Middle Fork | on Holbrook Branch, Seitz quadrangle | 2.1 miles north-west of Dale | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Skaggs | on Salyer Branch, Salyersville South quadrangle | 0.3 miles south-west of Sublett | 14 sheets, 1889 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.