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

No longer settlements

25

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
BrookoverZanesville East quadrangle0.4 miles east of Griffin15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Carlwickon Indian Run, Zanesville East quadrangle1.4 miles west of Griffin15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
ClaypoolsToboso quadrangle1.9 miles south-west of Cottage Hill11 sheets, 1910 to 1966
Confederate CrossroadsRuraldale quadrangle1.9 miles north of McDonald14 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Deadmanson Blount Run, Adamsville quadrangle0.3 miles west of Terrace Shores15 sheets, 1908 to 1994
FerncliffOtsego quadrangle2.6 miles north-east of Marquand Mills12 sheets, 1908 to 1994
JacksonZanesville East quadrangle1.4 miles west of Pleasant Grove15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Lawtonon Buffalo Fork, Norwich quadrangle2.4 miles east of Chandlersville15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Lewison Jonathan Creek, Zanesville West quadrangle0.3 miles east of Darlington13 sheets, 1910 to 1992
Maddenson Blount Run, Adamsville quadrangle0.7 miles north of Terrace Shores15 sheets, 1908 to 1994
Muskingumon Shawnee Run, Zanesville West quadrangle0.7 miles west of Maysville13 sheets, 1910 to 1992
Oaklandon Mill Run, Zanesville East quadrangle0.7 miles east of Eastlynd Acres15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
OperaGratiot quadrangle1.3 miles north-west of Wesley12 sheets, 1910 to 1992
Pierceon Indian Run, Zanesville East quadrangle2.0 miles south-west of Duncan Falls15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Pleasant Valleyon Poverty Run, Toboso quadrangle2.0 miles east of Woodcrest11 sheets, 1910 to 1966
Rich HillNorwich quadrangle1.1 miles north of Rix Mills15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Robertson Morrison Run, Crooksville quadrangle1.1 miles north of Avondale13 sheets, 1910 to 1984
Saint Clairon Mays Fork, Cumberland quadrangle1.8 miles north-west of Spratt14 sheets, 1911 to 1994
Sealoveron Coal Hollow, Philo quadrangle0.8 miles north-west of Frazier14 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Seawrighton Buffalo Fork, Norwich quadrangle1.3 miles east of Chandlersville15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Smithon Lepage Run, Norwich quadrangle1.4 miles north-west of Chandlersville15 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Tremleyson Blunt Run, Adamsville quadrangle0.6 miles south of Drake15 sheets, 1908 to 1994
Wakatomikaon Wakatomika Creek, Dresden quadrangle0.0 miles north of Dresden11 sheets, 1910 to 1966
White Eyes Townon Salt Creek, Philo quadrangle0.2 miles west of Duncan Falls14 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Wills TownConesville quadrangle1.8 miles west of Adams Mills14 sheets, 1908 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.