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Vanished settlements of Todd County, Kentucky

The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Todd County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

5

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.

Where in the county PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
Ashburyon Copper Spring Branch, Sharon Grove quadrangle3.3 miles north-west of Clifty7 sheets, 1952 to 1980
Bells ChapelPembroke quadrangle2.8 miles north-east of Tress Shop8 sheets, 1950 to 1980
Flat Rocknear Pilot Rock, Honey Grove quadrangle2.8 miles south of Britmart7 sheets, 1952 to 1980
PennickOlmstead quadrangle2.3 miles north-west of Bradshaw8 sheets, 1950 to 1980
Tuckertownnear Tucker Ridge, Honey Grove quadrangle2.2 miles south-east of Mount Tabor7 sheets, 1952 to 1980

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.