BlockVanished settlements of Oglethorpe County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Oglethorpe County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anon | Rayle quadrangle | 2.6 miles north of Palmetto | 12 sheets, 1906 to 1988 | |
| Bowling Green | Maxeys quadrangle | 2.2 miles west of Maxeys | 10 sheets, 1953 to 1988 | |
| Goose Pond | on Goosepond Creek, Jacksons Crossroads quadrangle | 1.5 miles west of Saxon | 12 sheets, 1906 to 1988 | |
| Sycorax | Vesta quadrangle | 1.5 miles east of Saxon | 13 sheets, 1906 to 1988 | |
| Wise | on Buffalo Creek, Rayle quadrangle | 4.2 miles north-east of Palmetto | 12 sheets, 1906 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.