BlockVanished settlements of Douglas County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Douglas County, Missouri that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biggs | near Round Valley Knob, Nichols Knob quadrangle | 0.4 miles south of Osborn Crossing | 13 sheets, 1939 to 2004 | |
| Hilo | on Hilo Ridge, Wasola quadrangle | 1.9 miles west of Silverton | 14 sheets, 1936 to 2004 | |
| Johns Mills | Bruner quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of Depew | 14 sheets, 1939 to 1983 | |
| Omba | near Fiddle Springs Hollow, Dora quadrangle | 1.2 miles south of Hebron | 15 sheets, 1939 to 2004 | |
| Rippee | on Rippee Creek, Rockbridge quadrangle | 2.0 miles west of Sweden | 13 sheets, 1937 to 1985 | |
| Sedan | near Abrahams Knob, Gentryville quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Buckhart | 13 sheets, 1937 to 1985 | |
| Tedrick | near Dobbs Hollow, Vanzant quadrangle | 1.7 miles north-west of Champion | 14 sheets, 1937 to 2004 |
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.