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

No longer settlements

5

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
BaldwinWest Unity quadrangle0.2 miles north-west of Jefferson Estates14 sheets, 1913 to 1990
Deer Lickon Nettle Creek, Montpelier quadrangle1.2 miles south-east of Holiday City13 sheets, 1914 to 1990
Denmarkon Bluff Run, Edgerton quadrangle1.0 miles west of Valley Springs Addition12 sheets, 1914 to 1986
FreedomBryan quadrangle1.0 miles east of Plover Lake Addition13 sheets, 1914 to 1986
West Buffaloon Bear Creek, Blakeslee quadrangle2.0 miles west of Blakeslee13 sheets, 1914 to 1990

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.