BlockVanished settlements of Maries County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Maries County, Missouri that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway | on Bailey Creek, Safe quadrangle | 2.9 miles west of Vichy | 17 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| Gaines Ford | on Gaines Ford Branch, Nagogami Lodge quadrangle | 2.4 miles west of Stickney | 17 sheets, 1937 to 1985 | |
| Henderson Ford | on Cedar Creek, Paydown quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-east of Bend | 18 sheets, 1937 to 1985 | |
| Johnson Ford | on Jack Creek, Vienna quadrangle | 1.9 miles north-east of James Brothers | 17 sheets, 1937 to 1985 | |
| Paydown Ford | on Mill Spring Creek, Paydown quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-east of Paydown | 18 sheets, 1937 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.