Vanished settlements of Jasper County, Georgia

The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Jasper County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

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.

Place	Where it stood	Nearest place today	Mapped
Athon	Shady Dale quadrangle	1.6 miles south of Aikenton	11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Benton Crossing	Monticello quadrangle	0.8 miles north-east of Monticello	11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Kitchens Store	Stewart quadrangle	0.5 miles south-west of Rocky Creek	12 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Kunsford	on Newby Branch, Hillsboro quadrangle	2.5 miles west of Gladesville	12 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Mechanicsville	on Alcovy River, Lloyd Shoals Dam quadrangle	1.1 miles north of Turtles Cove	12 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Piedmont	Smithboro quadrangle	2.2 miles north of Smithboro	11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Smiths Mill	on Herds Creek, Lloyd Shoals Dam quadrangle	4.5 miles north of Turtles Cove	12 sheets, 1953 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.