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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 15 places in Gallia County, Ohio that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

15

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
Angolaon Teens Run, Apple Grove quadrangle1.1 miles south of Eureka15 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Boggson German Hollow, Mercerville quadrangle2.2 miles north-west of Patriot14 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Clemmaon Peters Branch Swan Creek, Apple Grove quadrangle2.2 miles north of Bladen15 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Ednaon Keeton Run, Rio Grande quadrangle3.3 miles north-east of Durgan11 sheets, 1906 to 1981
HalleyApple Grove quadrangle2.4 miles east of Bladen15 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Hiltonon Little Bullskin Creek, Mercerville quadrangle1.1 miles south-east of Angel14 sheets, 1906 to 2002
HollisMercerville quadrangle3.0 miles east of Angel14 sheets, 1906 to 2002
McCormickon Laurel Creek, Rodney quadrangle0.9 miles south-west of Cora13 sheets, 1906 to 2002
MoodyMercerville quadrangle2.1 miles north-east of Angel14 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Obadon Deer Creek, Vinton quadrangle2.0 miles north-east of Vinton10 sheets, 1906 to 1981
Prospect Hillon Prospect Hill, Addison quadrangle1.7 miles west of Evergreen15 sheets, 1908 to 1981
Rubyon Little Perigen Creek, Mercerville quadrangle3.4 miles east of Leaper14 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Siloamon Fork Creek, Rodney quadrangle1.3 miles north of Cora13 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Tynrhoson Roush Run, Patriot quadrangle2.1 miles west of Centerpoint12 sheets, 1906 to 2002
Wigneron Rocky Fork, Rodney quadrangle2.6 miles north of Hideaway Acres13 sheets, 1906 to 2002

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.