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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 Putnam 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
Clevengerson Sugar Creek, Kalida quadrangle2.0 miles north-west of Kalida13 sheets, 1906 to 1986
Franconiaon Blanchard River, Continental quadrangle1.0 miles north of Dupont12 sheets, 1909 to 1986
HuntstownContinental quadrangle1.1 miles north of Cloverdale12 sheets, 1909 to 1986
MadeiraHamler quadrangle2.1 miles south-east of Prentiss11 sheets, 1908 to 1986
MontanaOttoville quadrangle1.8 miles east of Muntanna13 sheets, 1911 to 1986
OakdaleDeshler quadrangle1.7 miles north-east of Belmore10 sheets, 1956 to 1986
Upper TauwaOttawa quadrangle1.4 miles west of Ottawa12 sheets, 1908 to 1986
WardsOttawa quadrangle1.4 miles west of Elm Center12 sheets, 1908 to 1986

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.