BlockVanished settlements of Polk County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 14 places in Polk County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
14A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewers | Rockmart North quadrangle | 1.3 miles west of Fish Creek | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Briscoe | Cedartown East quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of Lake Creek | 19 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Davitte | Rockmart North quadrangle | 0.4 miles south-west of Portland | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Don | near Signal Mountain, Taylorsville quadrangle | 2.5 miles west of Rockmart | 18 sheets, 1890 to 1981 | |
| Fearing | near Etna Mountain, Indian Mountain quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-east of Etna | 18 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Grady | Cedartown East quadrangle | 1.6 miles east of Fish | 19 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Greenway | Benedict quadrangle | 1.2 miles south-west of Esom Hill | 14 sheets, 1889 to 1981 | |
| Hamlet | Rockmart North quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-west of Seney | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Posco | Rockmart North quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-west of Portland | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Ravenel | Rockmart North quadrangle | 1.1 miles south-east of Aragon | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Red Ore | on Fish Creek, Rockmart North quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-west of Aragon | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Treat | on Treat Mountain, Benedict quadrangle | 3.3 miles east of Fullwood Springs | 14 sheets, 1889 to 1981 | |
| Walthrall | on Lime Branch, Benedict quadrangle | 2.4 miles north of Benedict | 14 sheets, 1889 to 1981 | |
| Winkles | near Dugdown Mountain, Felton quadrangle | 2.7 miles north of Youngs | 16 sheets, 1889 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.