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The settlements that are gone
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Nantucket County, Massachusetts that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Further Creek | on Esther Island, Nantucket quadrangle | 1.6 miles east of Madaket | 30 sheets, 1887 to 1994 | |
| Head of Plains | on Quampache Bottom, Nantucket quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-west of Madaket | 32 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| Maddequet | on Long Hill, Nantucket quadrangle | 0.6 miles east of Trots Hills | 32 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| Middle Pasture | on Sauls Hills, Siasconset quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Polpis | 32 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| Narrow Creek | on Esther Island, Nantucket quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-east of Madaket | 30 sheets, 1887 to 1994 | |
| North Pasture | on Shawkemo Hills, Siasconset quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of Quaise | 32 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| Plainfield | on Cains Hill, Siasconset OE E quadrangle | 0.6 miles north of Sesachacha | 31 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| South East Quarter | on Phillips Run, Siasconset OE E quadrangle | 1.9 miles north-east of Siasconset | 31 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| South Pasture | on Nobadeer Valley, Siasconset quadrangle | 0.4 miles south-east of Surfside | 32 sheets, 1889 to 1994 | |
| The Plains | on Trots Hills, Nantucket quadrangle | 0.9 miles north of Trots Hills | 32 sheets, 1889 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.