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

No longer settlements

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.

Place	Where it stood	Nearest place today	Mapped
Butterworth	on Salt Run, Mason quadrangle	0.5 miles south-west of Loveland Park	15 sheets, 1904 to 1986
Edgewood	on Rattail Branch, Springboro quadrangle	1.0 miles north of Lytle	13 sheets, 1913 to 1986
Kitchener	on Rosers Run, Springboro quadrangle	0.7 miles south of Utica	13 sheets, 1913 to 1986
Lelan	on Irons Run, Lebanon quadrangle	0.6 miles north-east of Genntown	15 sheets, 1914 to 1986
Ridge	on Bee Run, Lebanon quadrangle	1.6 miles north of Avalon Heights	15 sheets, 1914 to 1986
Stokes	on Hudsons Run, Monroe quadrangle	1.5 miles north-east of Hageman	16 sheets, 1904 to 1986
Venable	on Cooks Run, Springboro quadrangle	1.6 miles west of Ridgeville	13 sheets, 1913 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.