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

No longer settlements

6

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
Clarkson The Knob, Painesville quadrangle1.9 miles north-east of Concord15 sheets, 1904 to 1994
Heisleyon Heisley Creek, Mentor quadrangle2.0 miles west of Mentor Acres16 sheets, 1905 to 1994
Madison Dockon Arcola Creek, Madison quadrangle0.3 miles north-east of Driftwood12 sheets, 1905 to 1994
Pease Millon East Creek, Painesville quadrangle1.3 miles north of Five Points15 sheets, 1904 to 1994
Rush RoadMayfield Heights quadrangle0.7 miles east of Concord Estates17 sheets, 1905 to 1994
Wheeleron Madison Palisades, Thompson quadrangle0.6 miles south-west of South Madison14 sheets, 1904 to 1994

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.