BlockVanished settlements of Callaway County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Callaway County, Missouri that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakersville | on Rivaux Creek, Osage City quadrangle | 2.7 miles west of Wainwright | 23 sheets, 1886 to 1982 | |
| Bryans | on Smith Branch, Auxvasse quadrangle | 2.6 miles south of Auxvasse | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1986 | |
| Cote Sans Dessein | on Cote Sans Dessein, Loose Creek quadrangle | 2.6 miles north-east of Tebbetts | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Effie | Mokane West quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-west of Tebbetts | 20 sheets, 1890 to 2000 | |
| Ellerslie | on Murray Branch, New Bloomfield quadrangle | 0.2 miles east of New Bloomfield | 22 sheets, 1886 to 2000 | |
| Garrett | Readsville quadrangle | 3.8 miles west of Readsville | 21 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Heilburn | on Eagle Creek, Morrison quadrangle | 0.7 miles south of Portland | 22 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Hord | Mokane West quadrangle | 2.2 miles south of Tebbetts | 20 sheets, 1890 to 2000 | |
| Howards Bluff | on Cason Branch, New Bloomfield quadrangle | 3.4 miles north-west of Lake Mykee Town | 22 sheets, 1886 to 2000 |
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.