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Vanished settlements of New Madrid County, Missouri

The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in New Madrid County, Missouri that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

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A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
CodyNew Madrid quadrangle0.4 miles north-east of Otis15 sheets, 1939 to 1985
CrumpeckerParma quadrangle0.6 miles east of Lorwood9 sheets, 1940 to 1985
HondinCatron quadrangle1.4 miles west of Como11 sheets, 1939 to 1985
JuanitaSikeston South quadrangle2.2 miles south of Champion15 sheets, 1931 to 1985
KrepinCatron quadrangle1.1 miles south-east of Catron11 sheets, 1939 to 1985
NordlowMalden quadrangle1.1 miles north-east of Melby9 sheets, 1940 to 1985
WilaParma quadrangle1.6 miles east of Como9 sheets, 1940 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.