BlockVanished settlements of Laurens County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 11 places in Laurens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bales | Scott quadrangle | 4.3 miles west of Brewton | 7 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Bender | Dudley quadrangle | 0.3 miles south-east of Haskins Crossing | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Hatoff | Lowery quadrangle | 3.0 miles north of Lowery | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Keenes Crossing | Scott quadrangle | 3.7 miles west of Brewton | 7 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Lollie | Minter quadrangle | 0.4 miles north-west of Minter | 9 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Manning | East Dublin quadrangle | 1.6 miles north of Lovett | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Mayberry | on Reedy Springs Branch, Rentz quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-west of Rentz | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Musgrove | on Little Stitchihatchie Branch, Dexter quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-west of Alcorns | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Springhaven | on Whitley Branch, Dexter quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-east of Alligood | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Walkee | on Ochwalkee Creek, Lowery quadrangle | 3.2 miles south of Cedar Grove | 8 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Westbrook | on Big Branch, Jay Bird Springs quadrangle | 5.9 miles north-west of Batson | 8 sheets, 1957 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.