BlockVanished settlements of Rockdale County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Rockdale County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blossom | on Rock Creek, Kelleytown quadrangle | 3.5 miles east of Velta | 18 sheets, 1888 to 1981 | |
| Fountain Hill | on Almand Creek, Porterdale quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-west of Velta | 18 sheets, 1896 to 1988 | |
| Honey Creek | Kelleytown quadrangle | 2.0 miles east of Velta | 18 sheets, 1888 to 1981 | |
| Orleans | on Soggy Bottom Creek, Conyers quadrangle | 3.8 miles south-west of Richardson | 21 sheets, 1888 to 1999 | |
| Princeton | on Winfield Creek, Milstead quadrangle | 2.8 miles west of Hi Roc Shores | 20 sheets, 1896 to 1999 | |
| Sardum | Snellville quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-east of McElroys Mill | 22 sheets, 1888 to 1999 |
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.