BlockVanished settlements of Osage County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Osage County, Missouri that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
8A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Rock | Wardsville quadrangle | 4.6 miles south-east of Folk | 17 sheets, 1888 to 1987 | |
| Daggetts Ford | on Reichel Creek, Summerfield quadrangle | 1.9 miles south of Gascondy | 17 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| Dingley | Belle quadrangle | 2.9 miles north-west of Byron | 16 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| Feuersville | near Nixon Ridge, Cooper Hill quadrangle | 2.4 miles north of Cooper Hill | 16 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| French Village | on Luzon Branch, Loose Creek quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-east of Bonnots Mill | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Isbell | on Loose Creek, Loose Creek quadrangle | 3.3 miles south-east of Frankenstein | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1985 | |
| Lake Ford | on Sweetwater Branch, Cooper Hill quadrangle | 2.4 miles west of Judge | 16 sheets, 1934 to 1985 | |
| Lisletown | on Maries River, Westphalia West quadrangle | 2.8 miles east of Loose Creek | 17 sheets, 1888 to 1987 |
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.