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The settlements that are gone
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Lorain County, Ohio that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coonville | Grafton quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-west of Colonial Oaks | 16 sheets, 1901 to 1986 | |
| Folger | on North Ridge, Avon quadrangle | 1.3 miles south of Avon Center | 16 sheets, 1901 to 1994 | |
| Nickelplate | on Elk Creek, Oberlin quadrangle | 2.7 miles south-east of Lagrange | 14 sheets, 1901 to 1986 | |
| Oakpoint | on Beaver Creek, Lorain quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-east of Beaver Park | 15 sheets, 1901 to 1986 | |
| Rugby | Vermilion East quadrangle | 1.9 miles east of Brownhelm | 14 sheets, 1903 to 1986 | |
| Shawville | Avon quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of North Ridgeville | 16 sheets, 1901 to 1994 | |
| Trinity | on North Ridge, Avon quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-west of Avon Center | 16 sheets, 1901 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.