Block
The settlements that are gone
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Fairfield County, Ohio that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millers | on Wolf Creek, Stoutsville quadrangle | 1.7 miles north-east of Oakland | 12 sheets, 1914 to 1992 | |
| Monticello | Millersport quadrangle | 1.5 miles east of Millersport | 11 sheets, 1907 to 1984 | |
| Sandstone | Lancaster quadrangle | 2.5 miles east of North Berne | 13 sheets, 1907 to 1984 | |
| Tarhe Town | on Tarhe Run, Lancaster quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-west of Carpenters Addition | 13 sheets, 1907 to 1984 | |
| Wyandotte | East Ringgold quadrangle | 2.2 miles south-west of Stoutsville | 12 sheets, 1914 to 1992 |
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.