When looking for old sites and researching I’ve found a couple places marked on one old map and not others from the same time period give or take a few years. Do you bother with short lived locations?
My house was built in 1963, the house closest over the hill was in the 50’s yet in between the houses I’ve found 1800s home stuff including coins... until about 1930s on the maps there was nothing not even roads here. Maps don’t show it all.