BlockVanished settlements of Jeff Davis County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Jeff Davis County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bingham | Snipesville quadrangle | 1.4 miles south of Kirkland | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Ellis | on Town Creek, Denton quadrangle | 3.3 miles north of Denton | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Goldsmith | on Fox Branch, Roper quadrangle | 2.5 miles south of Brooker | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Maysie | Hazlehurst South quadrangle | 3.3 miles west of Hazlehurst | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Orico | on Gully Creek, Hazlehurst North quadrangle | 3.6 miles south-west of Tallahassee | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Paceville | Snipesville quadrangle | 4.0 miles east of Kirkland | 8 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Quinn | Hazlehurst South quadrangle | 1.0 miles west of Satilla | 8 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.