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

No longer settlements

9

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
Centerviewon Jims Run, New Matamoras quadrangle2.0 miles north-east of Fly18 sheets, 1905 to 2002
Cross KeysRinard Mills quadrangle2.6 miles north-west of Lebanon16 sheets, 1905 to 2002
Hope Ridgeon Wheeler Run, Woodsfield quadrangle1.2 miles south-west of Kerr14 sheets, 1905 to 2002
Jerleson Robinson Run, Stafford quadrangle1.8 miles north of Swazey14 sheets, 1903 to 2002
Quarryon Merrell Ridge, Rinard Mills quadrangle2.5 miles north of Marr16 sheets, 1905 to 2002
Rockporton Litman Run, New Martinsville quadrangle1.4 miles south of Hannibal17 sheets, 1906 to 1994
Stillhouse Runon Stillhouse Run, Powhatan Point quadrangle1.4 miles south-west of Clarington15 sheets, 1905 to 1988
Stringtownon Johnson Hollow, New Matamoras quadrangle0.4 miles north-east of Fly18 sheets, 1905 to 2002
Trail Runon Little Trail Run, New Matamoras quadrangle1.7 miles north-east of Alexis18 sheets, 1905 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.