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

No longer settlements

8

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
CartersWest Jefferson quadrangle2.3 miles west of Lafayette13 sheets, 1907 to 1986
Deer Creek Villageon Georges Fork, London quadrangle0.7 miles south-west of Choctaw Lake14 sheets, 1907 to 1986
Markleyon North Fork Deer Creek, South Vienna quadrangle1.3 miles east of Summerford12 sheets, 1907 to 1986
MyersSouth Vienna quadrangle3.1 miles south of Florence12 sheets, 1907 to 1986
NiogaBig Plain quadrangle1.6 miles north-east of Kiousville11 sheets, 1907 to 1986
RobertsWest Jefferson quadrangle1.0 miles east of Oakwood Acres13 sheets, 1907 to 1986
WillowsWest Jefferson quadrangle2.6 miles east of Oakwood Acres13 sheets, 1907 to 1986
WilsonLondon quadrangle0.3 miles west of Amherst Meadows14 sheets, 1907 to 1986

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.