BlockVanished settlements of Pulaski County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Pulaski 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crackers Neck | on Timmy Branch, Delmer quadrangle | 0.1 miles south of Shepola | 10 sheets, 1935 to 1982 | |
| Crockett | near Bogle Knob, Delmer quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-west of Oak Hill | 10 sheets, 1935 to 1982 | |
| Dry Hole | on Rock Lick Branch, Shopville quadrangle | 0.5 miles west of Welborn | 13 sheets, 1893 to 1982 | |
| Durham | on Sinking Creek, Somerset quadrangle | 0.5 miles north-east of Elihu | 11 sheets, 1935 to 1997 | |
| Prater | on Allen Branch, Somerset quadrangle | 1.1 miles east of Ferguson | 11 sheets, 1935 to 1997 | |
| Waite | near Wait Knob, Delmer quadrangle | 1.6 miles north-east of Bourbon | 10 sheets, 1935 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.