Vanished settlements of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

The Geographic Names Information System records 29 places in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

A 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.

Place	Where it stood	Nearest place today	Mapped
Brownie	Central City East quadrangle	1.2 miles west of Martwick	15 sheets, 1909 to 1997
Carters Creek	on Carters Creek, Drakesboro quadrangle	2.5 miles east of Wells	15 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Cedardale	Central City East quadrangle	2.6 miles south-west of Nonnell	15 sheets, 1909 to 1997
Cherry Hill	on Cherry Hill, Central City West quadrangle	1.7 miles south of Morehead	16 sheets, 1909 to 1997
Dovey	near Cherry Hill, Central City West quadrangle	1.5 miles north-east of Central City	16 sheets, 1909 to 1997
Drake	Central City East quadrangle	0.6 miles south-west of Cleaton	15 sheets, 1909 to 1997
East Union	Millport quadrangle	1.4 miles north-west of Earles	14 sheets, 1909 to 1983
Elk Valley	on Plum Creek, Drakesboro quadrangle	0.4 miles north-west of Nonnell	15 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Forest Grove	Rochester quadrangle	1.1 miles east of Ennis	11 sheets, 1911 to 1981
Forest Oak	on Canfield Branch, Rochester quadrangle	2.3 miles north-west of Ennis	11 sheets, 1911 to 1981
Gordon	Graham quadrangle	2.0 miles north-east of Graham	13 sheets, 1912 to 1983
Greenbriar	Kirkmansville quadrangle	2.4 miles south-west of Bivins	14 sheets, 1911 to 1983
Jernigan Chapel	near Buck Knob, Greenville quadrangle	2.3 miles west of Greenville	16 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Leighs	Drakesboro quadrangle	0.9 miles south of Wells	15 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Liberty Hill	Drakesboro quadrangle	1.9 miles north-east of Holt	15 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Little Mountain	on Buck Creek, Rosewood quadrangle	1.4 miles north-east of Wells	12 sheets, 1911 to 1983
McDonalds	Millport quadrangle	1.0 miles west of Sandy	14 sheets, 1909 to 1983
Mud River Union	on Little Hazel Creek, Rochester quadrangle	2.1 miles south-west of Union Ridge	11 sheets, 1911 to 1981
Myers Chapel	on Pryor Creek, Rosewood quadrangle	1.6 miles east of Penrod	12 sheets, 1911 to 1983
Paradise	near Airdrie Hill, Paradise quadrangle	4.1 miles south-east of Davenport Landing	12 sheets, 1909 to 1981
Peanut	on Plum Creek, Drakesboro quadrangle	0.5 miles south of Drakesboro	15 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Pleasant Hill	on Opossum Run, Greenville quadrangle	2.3 miles north-west of Greenville	16 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Prospect	Greenville quadrangle	1.1 miles north-west of Mercer	16 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Riverside	Rochester quadrangle	2.4 miles south of Ennis	11 sheets, 1911 to 1981
Sharon	Greenville quadrangle	1.0 miles south-west of Bancroft	16 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Spring Ridge	by Kincheloes Bluff, Central City East quadrangle	1.3 miles south of Central City	15 sheets, 1909 to 1997
Sunnyside	Central City East quadrangle	2.5 miles south-east of Nelson	15 sheets, 1909 to 1997
Sunrise	on Plum Creek, Drakesboro quadrangle	0.3 miles east of Nonnell	15 sheets, 1911 to 1997
Vernal Grove	near Bards Hill, Graham quadrangle	2.6 miles north-east of Depoy	13 sheets, 1912 to 1983

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.