former village

C774
concept

A former village is a once-inhabited settlement that has lost its status or population as a village, often due to abandonment, depopulation, or administrative reclassification.

All labels observed (16)

Label Occurrences
former populated place 138
former settlement 85
former village canonical 79

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: former village
Generated description
A former village is a once-inhabited settlement that has lost its status or population as a village, often due to abandonment, depopulation, or administrative reclassification.

Instances (349)

Instance Via concept surface
Tangen former settlement
Alcombe
Waterloo former settlement
South Hylton
Larinum former populated place
Tarsus former populated place
Savines
Castletown
Bujaków
Carlsruhe, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia former settlement
Gaywood
Tioga Point, Pennsylvania former populated place
Pilton
Ashopton
ancient city of Interamna Nahars
surface form: Interamna Nahars
former populated place
Haven, Oklahoma former populated place
Derwent (submerged village)
Tayasal former populated place
Herzog, Kansas former settlement
Head of Elk former settlement
Cadzow former settlement
Raisina village
Coaltown of Balgonie former mining village
Mikro Chorio abandoned village
Bozrah former populated place
abandoned medieval village of Chorio abandoned village
Wanlockhead former mining village
Winnacunnet Plantation former settlement
Abertysswg former mining village
Pejepscot settlement former populated place
Quneitra former populated place
Whiskeytown, California former settlement
Rancho Tía Juana former settlement
Beverwijck former populated place
Rixdorf
Peelo
Provo Bench former populated place
Juneautown former settlement
Newton former populated place
Ville-Marie, New France former settlement
Vistula, Ohio former settlement
Lake Mykee Town, Missouri
former Cree community of Winisk former settlement
East Weare Village (submerged by Everett Dam) former settlement
al-Askar former settlement
Commerce, Illinois former settlement
Sidney, Arizona former populated place
Hite former settlement
Cudworth, Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England former mining village
Ležáky former settlement