Vanished settlements of Lowndes County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Lowndes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bray | Valdosta quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-west of Charter Oaks | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1981 | |
| Chapman | Bemiss quadrangle | 0.5 miles north of Academy Acres | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1981 | |
| Dees | Valdosta quadrangle | 2.7 miles south of Briggston | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1981 | |
| Macville | Valdosta quadrangle | 1.7 miles north-east of Jackson | 9 sheets, 1954 to 1981 | |
| Olympia | on Clyatt Mill Creek, Clyattville quadrangle | 3.1 miles north-east of Clyattville | 10 sheets, 1954 to 1994 | |
| Seaford | Bemiss quadrangle | 2.2 miles south-west of Bemiss | 6 sheets, 1954 to 1981 | |
| Stephenton | Indianola quadrangle | 2.7 miles north-west of Indianola | 6 sheets, 1954 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.