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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 Perry 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
AsburyJunction City quadrangle1.6 miles north of Clarksville13 sheets, 1907 to 2002
ClaybankNew Lexington quadrangle2.4 miles west of Bristol14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
DicksontonNew Lexington quadrangle0.2 miles north of Dixie14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
Hamburgon Happy Hollow, Corning quadrangle1.2 miles north of Millertown14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
HobokenCorning quadrangle2.3 miles north-east of Hatfield14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
Horneon Black Fork, Crooksville quadrangle0.4 miles south-east of Brigglesville13 sheets, 1910 to 1984
LyonsdaleNew Lexington quadrangle1.9 miles east of Milligan14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
OconorvilleNew Lexington quadrangle1.1 miles south of Whipstown14 sheets, 1911 to 2002
Wellanon Somerset Creek, Somerset quadrangle2.2 miles south-west of Carthon11 sheets, 1909 to 1984

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.