BlockVanished settlements of Shannon County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Shannon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brushy Mill | near Turkey Roost Hollow, The Sinks quadrangle | 2.5 miles north-west of Mauser Mill | 20 sheets, 1945 to 1989 | |
| Buckhart Springs | near Turnback Hollow, Bartlett quadrangle | 3.5 miles north of Delaware | 22 sheets, 1915 to 1997 | |
| Congo | Montier quadrangle | 3.3 miles south of Not | 12 sheets, 1945 to 1986 | |
| Himont | near Polk Ridge, Midridge quadrangle | 2.2 miles north-east of Midridge | 18 sheets, 1944 to 1989 | |
| House Hollow | on Sinking Branch, Alley Spring quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-west of Alley | 22 sheets, 1915 to 1989 | |
| Sinkin | near White Hollow, Gladden quadrangle | 2.2 miles south-west of Shannondale | 17 sheets, 1945 to 1989 | |
| Spur 3 | Alley Spring quadrangle | 1.6 miles east of Flatwood | 22 sheets, 1915 to 1989 | |
| Tin Roof | near Sycamore Hollow, Jam Up Cave quadrangle | 6.3 miles west of Oakside | 19 sheets, 1946 to 1989 |
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.