BlockVanished settlements of Clark County, South Dakota
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 places in Clark County, South Dakota 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton | Carpenter NE quadrangle | 5.2 miles north-west of Fordham Colony | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Gros | Crocker SW quadrangle | 7.8 miles east of Crocker | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Julian | Baileys Lake quadrangle | 6.0 miles south-east of Hillcrest Colony | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Keefton | Carpenter NE quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-west of Fordham Colony | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Lily | Bradley quadrangle | 3.3 miles north-west of Crocker | 7 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Merton | Raymond SE quadrangle | 2.4 miles west of Fordham Colony | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Pitrodie | Carpenter SE quadrangle | 5.6 miles north-west of Carpenter | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1985 | |
| Success | Cherry Lake quadrangle | 6.3 miles north-west of Willow Lake | 8 sheets, 1953 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.