BlockVanished settlements of Adams County, Wisconsin
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Adams County, Wisconsin that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Center | Adams quadrangle | 2.9 miles north of Adams | 10 sheets, 1957 to 1990 | |
| Dell Prairie | Big Spring quadrangle | 3.6 miles east of Big Spring | 15 sheets, 1902 to 1990 | |
| Fordham | by Preston Cliffs, Grand Marsh quadrangle | 4.0 miles west of Friendship | 11 sheets, 1957 to 1990 | |
| New Chester | Brooks quadrangle | 2.5 miles south of Brooks | 10 sheets, 1957 to 1990 | |
| New Rome | on Chester Creek, Arkdale NE quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-west of New Rome | 7 sheets, 1955 to 1985 | |
| Pilot Knob | by Horseshoe Bluff, Westfield West quadrangle | 8.2 miles south-west of Grand Marsh | 11 sheets, 1957 to 1990 | |
| Quincy | Dellwood quadrangle | 6.1 miles south-east of White Creek | 10 sheets, 1957 to 1990 | |
| Roche a Cri | on Dead Horse Creek, Roche A Cri quadrangle | 1.4 miles east of Cottonville | 7 sheets, 1955 to 1985 | |
| Springbluff | Grand Marsh quadrangle | 2.9 miles south-west of Grand Marsh | 11 sheets, 1957 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.