BlockVanished settlements of Mason County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Mason 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bates | on Bull Fork Creek, Maysville East quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-east of Springdale | 15 sheets, 1929 to 1992 | |
| Dexter | Sardis quadrangle | 2.4 miles north of Fernleaf | 10 sheets, 1915 to 1991 | |
| Manley | Sardis quadrangle | 2.7 miles north of Shannon | 10 sheets, 1915 to 1991 | |
| Shawnee Hill | Maysville West quadrangle | 0.7 miles north-east of Country Club Heights | 13 sheets, 1915 to 1991 | |
| Simon Kenton Acres | Maysville West quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-east of Country Club Heights | 13 sheets, 1915 to 1991 | |
| Taylors Mill | on Middle Run, Orangeburg quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Somo | 12 sheets, 1929 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.