BlockVanished settlements of Nelson County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Nelson County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
12A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beech Fork | on Nealy Run, Maud quadrangle | 3.6 miles south-west of Woodlawn | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Clarktown | Loretto quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-west of New Hope | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Hahntown | Bloomfield quadrangle | 2.3 miles east of Chaplin | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Holt Ridge | on Holt Ridge, Brush Grove quadrangle | 2.9 miles north of Chaplin | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Humphrey | on Nealy Run, Maud quadrangle | 3.3 miles west of Woodlawn | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Needmore | on Coes Creek, Bardstown quadrangle | 0.7 miles south of Botland | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Plum Run | Fairfield quadrangle | 2.4 miles north of Fairfield | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Samuel Pottinger Settlement | on Monks Creek, New Haven quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Gethsemane | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Sol Bloom | Maud quadrangle | 3.1 miles north of Bloomfield | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| South Bardstown | on Town Creek, Bardstown quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Bardstown | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| Upper Grove | on Kimbly Run, Fairfield quadrangle | 2.0 miles north of Highgrove | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1981 | |
| West Bardstown | on Withrow Creek, Bardstown quadrangle | 1.0 miles east of Bardstown | 9 sheets, 1953 to 1981 |
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.