[meteorite-list] Powellsville is [not] missing!

From: Dave Carothers <davecarothers_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Dec 9 21:54:33 2005
Message-ID: <025601c5fd35$0a50ab00$6401a8c0_at_WINBOOKJ>

How can you miss it. Powellsville is just up the road a piece from Franklin
Furnace and just a hoot-and-a-holler from Stream Side.

All kidding aside, Powellsville still has a zip code (45629), so it "exists"
as far as the USPS is concerned.

Dave
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Powellsville is [not] missing!


> In a message dated 12/9/2005 12:39:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de writes:
> Tracy wondered:
>
> "When I tried to locate Powellsville, OH, I was able to locate Scioto
County
> and
> even a Powellsville Pike, but the original town seems to have dried up
and
> blown
> away."
>
> Jeff wrote:
>
> USGS to the rescue:
>
> "Click on one of the mapping services to the right
> of this page, preferably Topozone, to see where it
> is."
>
> Hello Tracy, Jeff, and List,
>
> Powellsville, Ohio, was an easy target for my Microsoft Encarta
(1993-1996)
> and an even easier target for my electronic US-Atlas (I don't know the
title
> of the English version but it is copyright by Pro CD Inc., Danvers, MA).
>
> The latter even lets me zoom in so I can see it is on Route 522 not far
away
> from Poplar Fork Pine Creek with Oakes Road running a little to its
west.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernd
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Mapquest found it very quickly too.
> But I don't think it is much of a "town"
> Tracy asked about other "towns that might have dried up and blown away", I
> think Russell Gulch in Colorado is an example of that. There isn't much
there
> now, a few empty houses, a few abandoned mines, and an old cemetery.
> Any others?
>
> Anne M. Black
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