BlockVanished settlements of Dane County, Wisconsin
The Geographic Names Information System records 11 places in Dane County, Wisconsin that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
11A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldens Corners | Black Earth quadrangle | 2.2 miles south-east of Lutheran Hill | 15 sheets, 1907 to 1991 | |
| Bakers Corners | North Bristol quadrangle | 1.3 miles west of North Bristol | 9 sheets, 1955 to 1991 | |
| Buss's Corners | Sun Prairie quadrangle | 1.2 miles north of Sun Prairie | 26 sheets, 1890 to 1991 | |
| Catfish | on Sixmile Creek, Waunakee quadrangle | 0.9 miles south-east of Mendota | 24 sheets, 1890 to 1991 | |
| Darwin | De Forest quadrangle | 0.3 miles north of Oak Park Terrace | 24 sheets, 1890 to 1991 | |
| Five Points | Middleton quadrangle | 1.7 miles south of Verona | 17 sheets, 1907 to 1991 | |
| Forward | Daleyville quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-west of Daleyville | 12 sheets, 1923 to 1981 | |
| Hanerville | Stoughton quadrangle | 2.5 miles west of Dunkirk | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1981 | |
| Montrose | on Milum Creek, Verona quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-east of Belleville | 15 sheets, 1923 to 1981 | |
| Primrose | near Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon quadrangle | 3.2 miles north of Mount Vernon | 14 sheets, 1923 to 1981 | |
| Syene | Madison West quadrangle | 2.4 miles south-east of Lakeview | 25 sheets, 1890 to 1991 |
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.