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Decorative drawing: an abandoned homestead reclaimed by grass, a leaning chimney and an empty road. Not a photograph of this place.

The settlements that are gone

The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Adams County, Ohio that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

7

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
Buck Runon Little West Fork Ohio Brush Creek, Seaman quadrangle3.0 miles south-east of Tranquility11 sheets, 1918 to 1991
Grimeson Ohio Brush Creek, Concord quadrangle2.6 miles north of Gemmer15 sheets, 1919 to 1991
Irvingtonon Gregg Run, Seaman quadrangle1.2 miles west of Seaman11 sheets, 1918 to 1991
Mooreon Cedar Run, Lynx quadrangle1.9 miles south-east of Lynx12 sheets, 1916 to 1991
Mount Leighon Buck Run, Seaman quadrangle0.9 miles south of Seaman11 sheets, 1918 to 1991
Mount Zionon Elk Fork, Seaman quadrangle1.0 miles east of Seaman11 sheets, 1918 to 1991
Waggoner Rippleon Waggoner Run, Concord quadrangle0.4 miles north-west of Gemmer15 sheets, 1919 to 1991

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.