Its location in Township 43, Range 7 West was not identified again until 1998, when a researcher found a notice of sheriff's sale which included a legal description of the "Bartonville tract".
Bartonville, a lost town, was situated in what is now Osage County, across the Gasconade River from Cooper Hill.
The county seat was then moved to the higher town of Mount Sterling.
[1] Goodspeed, History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gasconade Counties, MO, pp. 617–706.
Gasconade County Historical Society Archives, Hermann, MO.