BlockVanished settlements of Lincoln County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burr Oak | on Upper Sandy Creek, Luckett Ridge quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Kings Lake | 12 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| Chantilly | Maryknoll quadrangle | 2.0 miles south of Fountain N' Lakes | 22 sheets, 1903 to 1985 | |
| Highview | Maryknoll quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-west of Ethlyn | 22 sheets, 1903 to 1985 | |
| Linns Mills | on Casmer Branch, Warrenton NE quadrangle | 3.4 miles east of South Troy | 20 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Mashek | on Cottonwood Branch, Silex quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Stepanek Crossing | 16 sheets, 1890 to 1986 | |
| New Salem | Luckett Ridge quadrangle | 0.2 miles north of Argentville | 12 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| Owen | on Groshong Branch, Maryknoll quadrangle | 2.6 miles north-east of Ethlyn | 22 sheets, 1903 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.