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Vanished settlements of Elbert County, Georgia

The Geographic Names Information System records 4 places in Elbert County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

4

A 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 PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
ConcordiaRock Branch quadrangle1.9 miles west of Fains Store14 sheets, 1893 to 1979
Edinburgon Coldwater Creek, Lowndesville quadrangle3.3 miles west of Ruckersville14 sheets, 1893 to 1979
Huguenoton Reedy Branch, Broad quadrangle7.9 miles west of Bell13 sheets, 1906 to 1988
StansellHeardmont quadrangle2.1 miles north-east of Beverly14 sheets, 1893 to 1979

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.