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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 Meigs 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
Buckhornon Parker Run, Rutland quadrangle1.2 miles north-west of Dexter13 sheets, 1907 to 1980
Bunker HillPomeroy quadrangle1.9 miles west of Horner Hill14 sheets, 1907 to 1992
Eldenon Morgan Hollow, Portland quadrangle0.4 miles north-east of Stiversville15 sheets, 1907 to 1994
Fayalon Turben Creek, Portland quadrangle1.6 miles south of Long Bottom15 sheets, 1907 to 1994
Martinsburgon Mud Fork, Rutland quadrangle1.4 miles south of Dexter13 sheets, 1907 to 1980
Oakgroveon German Fork, New Haven quadrangle1.4 miles south of Racine18 sheets, 1908 to 1994
White Rockon Permonkey Creek, Chester quadrangle0.4 miles south of Carletonville14 sheets, 1907 to 1994
ZealVales Mills quadrangle1.9 miles east of Mount Blanco12 sheets, 1905 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.