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Vanished settlements of Jones County, Georgia

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

No longer settlements

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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
CampbellGray quadrangle1.5 miles south of Wayside11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
CrutchfieldDames Ferry quadrangle3.4 miles east of Round Oak11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Fippinon Allisons Creek, Dames Ferry quadrangle4.8 miles east of Round Oak11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Plentitudeon Glawson Creek, Macon NW quadrangle0.2 miles north-east of Three Points12 sheets, 1956 to 1988
Smalls CrossingDames Ferry quadrangle2.0 miles east of Wayside11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
StallingsHaddock quadrangle3.6 miles west of Blountsville10 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Van BurenMacon East quadrangle0.4 miles north-west of Jones Acres14 sheets, 1956 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.