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Vanished settlements of Union County, Kentucky

The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Union 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
EberlySturgis quadrangle1.4 miles north-east of Pride14 sheets, 1907 to 1991
McClureWaverly quadrangle2.8 miles south-west of Boxville13 sheets, 1907 to 1991
Mount OliveGrove Center quadrangle2.0 miles east of Henshaw22 sheets, 1916 to 1987
Reyburnon Sibley Creek, Wabash Island quadrangle3.5 miles south-west of Raleigh23 sheets, 1905 to 1987
Topeka CrossroadsWaverly quadrangle1.9 miles south-west of Boxville13 sheets, 1907 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.