Transplanting a Seattleite

Elksburg doesn't exist anymore, not that it was that big to begin with -- it quite possibly never appeared on any maps. My family is from the next county over from Lewis County (Fleming County)... it actually borders Ohio. Lewis County is a very rural area; the biggest town (Vanceburg) only has a few thousand people. In rural areas like that, every county has a hundred little 'burgs'... and if an area has three or more houses, someone probably gave it a name at some point.

I asked my grandfather where Elksburg was, and he wasn't sure, he had only heard mention of it when he was a kid (he was born in 1933). He had family members in the similarly tiny communities of Petersville (still in existence) and Esculapia Springs (doesn't exist anymore). More than likely Elksburg was an early 1800's 'burg' that was abandoned or destroyed by fire, etc.