BlockVanished settlements of Fulton County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 11 places in Fulton County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
11A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheney | Southwest Atlanta quadrangle | 0.7 miles south of East Point | 23 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Edwardsville | on South Fork Peachtree Creek, Northeast Atlanta quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-west of Buckhead | 21 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Haasville | Southwest Atlanta quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-west of Plunket Town | 23 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Knott | on Perkerson Creek, Southwest Atlanta quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Forrest Park | 23 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Mecca | on Little Pea Creek, Campbellton quadrangle | 0.4 miles east of Cedar Grove | 17 sheets, 1891 to 1999 | |
| Payton | on A D Williams Creek, Northwest Atlanta quadrangle | 0.8 miles east of Tilford | 24 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Peachtree Park | Northeast Atlanta quadrangle | 1.2 miles west of Buckhead | 21 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Powell | Northeast Atlanta quadrangle | 1.6 miles west of Buckhead | 21 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Sandtown | Ben Hill quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of Canaan Woods | 19 sheets, 1891 to 1999 | |
| Slabtown | near Dabneys Hill, Northwest Atlanta quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-west of Capitol Homes | 24 sheets, 1888 to 1997 | |
| Snake Nation | Northwest Atlanta quadrangle | 0.7 miles east of Five Points | 24 sheets, 1888 to 1997 |
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.