BlockVanished settlements of Boone County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 17 places in Boone County, Missouri that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
17A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boonesborough | Millersburg quadrangle | 2.9 miles west of Shaw | 22 sheets, 1886 to 2000 | |
| Eureka | on Grider Branch, Hartsburg quadrangle | 0.6 miles east of Wilton | 20 sheets, 1886 to 2000 | |
| Everett | Sturgeon SW quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Woodlandville | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Germantown | on Silver Fork, Sturgeon SW quadrangle | 3.5 miles east of Hinton | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Lebanon | on Varnon Branch, Hallsville quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-west of Browns | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Lexington | Sturgeon SW quadrangle | 2.4 miles north of Woodlandville | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Nashville | on Perche Creek, Jamestown quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Providence | 20 sheets, 1886 to 1982 | |
| Perche | on Lick Fork, Harrisburg quadrangle | 3.3 miles west of Harrisburg | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Persia | on Slacks Branch, Sturgeon SW quadrangle | 3.0 miles east of Hinton | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Petersburg | on Thompson Branch, Sturgeon quadrangle | 1.9 miles north-west of Riggs | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Points | Hallsville quadrangle | 3.6 miles west of Hallsville | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Smithton | on Goose Creek, Columbia quadrangle | 0.2 miles east of Columbia | 29 sheets, 1886 to 1982 | |
| Stapletown | on Barclay Branch, Sturgeon SW quadrangle | 1.8 miles south of Midway | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Stonesport | on Slate Creek, Hartsburg quadrangle | 1.3 miles east of Claysville | 20 sheets, 1886 to 2000 | |
| Summerville | on North Fork Turkey Creek, Millersburg SW quadrangle | 1.0 miles east of Ginlet | 23 sheets, 1886 to 2000 | |
| Thralls Prairie | Hilldale quadrangle | 2.3 miles south of Rocheport | 15 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Wilhite | Hilldale quadrangle | 3.0 miles south-west of Rocheport | 15 sheets, 1890 to 1985 |
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.