BlockVanished settlements of Wolfe County, Kentucky
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Wolfe County, Kentucky that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antioch | on Bear Pen Creek, Campton quadrangle | 0.1 miles north of Mary | 12 sheets, 1892 to 1982 | |
| Baileyfield | on Mandy Holland Fork, Landsaw quadrangle | 0.9 miles south of Hollonville | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Chamber Fork | on Chambers Fork, Landsaw quadrangle | 1.5 miles north of Baptist | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| El Park | on Torrent Creek, Zachariah quadrangle | 0.1 miles east of Torrent | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1982 | |
| Mullins Point | on Mullins Point, Campton quadrangle | 1.2 miles west of Grannie | 12 sheets, 1892 to 1982 | |
| Nelson | on Prophet Branch, Campton quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-west of Vortex | 12 sheets, 1892 to 1982 | |
| Rose Chapel | on Carson Fork, Landsaw quadrangle | 1.4 miles south of Lexie | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Rosedale | on Murphy Fork, Landsaw quadrangle | 0.3 miles north-west of Landsaw | 13 sheets, 1889 to 1982 | |
| Rye | on Little Bloody Creek, Campton quadrangle | 2.0 miles east of Bethany | 12 sheets, 1892 to 1982 | |
| Wolf Pen | on Wolf Pen Branch, Lee City quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Burkhart | 11 sheets, 1889 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.