BlockVanished settlements of Lawrence County, South Dakota
The Geographic Names Information System records 15 places in Lawrence County, South Dakota that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
15A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownsville | Deadwood South quadrangle | 1.4 miles east of Roubaix | 20 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Carbonate | on Cole Creek, Spearfish quadrangle | 1.4 miles west of Maurice | 20 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Carterville | on Yellow Creek, Deadwood South quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Lead | 20 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Cartesville | on Yellow Creek, Lead quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-west of Lead | 17 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Carthage | near Stewart Gulch, Lead quadrangle | 0.5 miles north-west of Terry | 17 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Centennial City | near Crook Mountain, Deadwood North quadrangle | 0.5 miles north of Crook City | 19 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Channing | near White Mansion, Nemo quadrangle | 2.1 miles south of Tomahawk | 17 sheets, 1894 to 1998 | |
| Dacy | near Ragged Top Mountain, Savoy quadrangle | 1.1 miles east of Preston | 18 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Diamond City | near Greens Gulch, Minnesota Ridge quadrangle | 3.3 miles north-west of Nahant | 14 sheets, 1894 to 1957 | |
| Elizabethtown | near Spruce Gulch, Deadwood North quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-west of Chinatown | 19 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Flatiron I | on Reno Creek, Lead quadrangle | 1.7 miles north-west of Kirk | 17 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Gregory | near Greens Gulch, Minnesota Ridge quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-west of Nahant | 14 sheets, 1894 to 1957 | |
| Lancaster City | near Sheeptail Gulch, Spearfish quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of Gayville | 20 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Ragged Top | on Ragged Top Mountain, Savoy quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-west of Preston | 18 sheets, 1894 to 1961 | |
| Virginia | on Strawberry Creek, Deadwood South quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-east of Galena | 20 sheets, 1894 to 1961 |
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.