BlockVanished settlements of Burke County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Burke County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A place leaves this list only by being unmade: the post office closes, the mine works out, the road moves. The name stays in the federal gazetteer, flagged historical, and the topographic sheets that recorded it stay in the archive.
| Where in the county | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbury | Idlewood quadrangle | 1.8 miles north of Old Church | 16 sheets, 1920 to 1982 | |
| Bill Davis | Sardis quadrangle | 3.5 miles south-east of Sardis | 15 sheets, 1920 to 1981 | |
| Brushy Creek | on Little Brushy Creek, Keysville quadrangle | 2.6 miles north of Keysville | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1988 | |
| Elmore | Waynesboro quadrangle | 4.6 miles east of Waynesboro | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1988 | |
| Le Roy | Keysville quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-west of Walker Grove Settlement | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1988 | |
| Number Ten | on Clear Spring Creek, Colemans Lake quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-west of Gertrude | 7 sheets, 1957 to 1988 |
Provenance
- Which settlements are gone. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey. A place is listed here when the federal gazetteer flags its record historical; that is the government's judgement, not this site's.
- Where each one stood. The gazetteer's own coordinates, and the nearest named landform and quadrangle from the same file.
- Distance and direction to the nearest surviving place. Computed here from the gazetteer coordinates of both places, straight line, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
- Sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The count is of sheets covering the site, so it describes how often the AREA was surveyed and not how long the settlement lasted.