BlockVanished settlements of Sumter County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Sumter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corinth | Methvins quadrangle | 3.8 miles south-west of Lamar | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Danville | on Gleaton-Johnson Slough, Drayton quadrangle | 5.7 miles south-west of Lamar | 9 sheets, 1957 to 1988 | |
| Lebanon | Plains quadrangle | 1.9 miles east of Plains | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Magnolia Springs | Plains quadrangle | 2.6 miles south of Plains | 8 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Myrtle Springs | on Ninemile Branch, Ellaville South quadrangle | 1.8 miles north of Shiloh | 7 sheets, 1955 to 1981 | |
| Parkers | Leslie quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-east of Leslie | 9 sheets, 1953 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.