BlockVanished settlements of Wayne County, Missouri
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Wayne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barlow | on Eads Creek, Piedmont SE quadrangle | 3.1 miles south of Browns Crossing | 17 sheets, 1932 to 1989 | |
| Chaonia | on Lost Creek, Wappapello quadrangle | 3.7 miles north-east of Lost Creek Landing | 14 sheets, 1935 to 1983 | |
| Chilton | near Clyburn Valley, Ellington SE quadrangle | 2.5 miles east of Leeper | 17 sheets, 1943 to 1989 | |
| Ferrys | near Peoples Hollow, Wappapello quadrangle | 1.0 miles east of Wappapello | 14 sheets, 1935 to 1983 | |
| Head Ford | on Cedar Creek, Coldwater quadrangle | 3.1 miles east of Coldwater | 19 sheets, 1930 to 1989 | |
| Kerrigan | on Knox Branch, Piedmont SE quadrangle | 2.4 miles south of Browns Crossing | 17 sheets, 1932 to 1989 | |
| Old Greenville | on Holliday Creek, Greenville SW quadrangle | 1.8 miles north of Greenville | 19 sheets, 1934 to 1989 | |
| Taskee Station | near Smoot Hollow, Hendrickson quadrangle | 1.1 miles west of Ladero | 13 sheets, 1935 to 1983 |
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.