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Vanished settlements of Putnam County, Georgia

The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Putnam 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
ApolloSmithboro quadrangle4.7 miles south-east of Willard11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Cloptonon Cold Branch, Resseaus Crossroads quadrangle1.6 miles south of Resseaus Crossroads12 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Glenwoods Springon Baker Branch, Eatonton quadrangle0.5 miles north-west of Note11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Hearnvilleon Hone Branch, Shady Dale quadrangle4.6 miles east of Reids Crossroads11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
Huronon Beaverdam Creek, Eatonton quadrangle2.0 miles east of Note11 sheets, 1953 to 1988
SpiveyHarmony quadrangle1.3 miles south of Turnwold12 sheets, 1953 to 1988
The GladesRock Eagle Lake quadrangle1.4 miles north-east of Reids Crossroads10 sheets, 1953 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.