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

No longer settlements

10

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
Berwynon Pleasant Valley, Birmingham quadrangle2.2 miles north-west of Bernice17 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Deardoffs Millson South Fork Sugar Creek, Navarre quadrangle3.3 miles south-east of Strasburg18 sheets, 1914 to 1994
EgyptMineral City quadrangle0.8 miles north of Mount Tabor17 sheets, 1912 to 1994
ElmGnadenhutten quadrangle2.2 miles south-west of Gilmore15 sheets, 1909 to 1994
HollyBaltic quadrangle2.7 miles north-east of Fiat14 sheets, 1911 to 1994
LawrencevilleBolivar quadrangle0.4 miles west of Bolivar16 sheets, 1912 to 1994
New EnglandDover quadrangle1.0 miles east of Mount Tabor16 sheets, 1912 to 1994
Odberton Crooked Run, New Philadelphia quadrangle1.9 miles east of South Side15 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Three Legs Townon Moose Island, Uhrichsville quadrangle0.7 miles north-west of Royal Lane Park16 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Yankeetownon Frys Creek, Gnadenhutten quadrangle0.5 miles east of Gnadenhutten15 sheets, 1909 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.