BlockVanished settlements of Gordon County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 places in Gordon County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
10A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Spring | Sonoraville quadrangle | 1.1 miles north-east of Cash | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1981 | |
| Bowls | on Big Branch, Sonoraville quadrangle | 2.0 miles north-east of Yarbroughs Mill | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1981 | |
| Buff | on Noblet Creek, Redbud quadrangle | 2.2 miles north-west of Fidelle | 18 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Coosawattee | on Noblet Creek, Redbud quadrangle | 2.2 miles west of Fidelle | 18 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Fambro | near Gillespie Hollow, Sonoraville quadrangle | 1.8 miles west of Cash | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1981 | |
| Igo | on Marlowe Branch, Fairmount quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Ranger | 19 sheets, 1890 to 1981 | |
| Midway | Redbud quadrangle | 1.2 miles west of Nickelsville | 18 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Rocky Creek | on Dry Creek, Plainville quadrangle | 2.0 miles south of Curryville | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Water Valley | on Blue Springs Creek, Calhoun North quadrangle | 1.1 miles south of Resaca | 19 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Wheeler | on Little Dry Creek, Oakman quadrangle | 2.2 miles north-east of Petersburg | 19 sheets, 1886 to 1981 |
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.