BlockVanished settlements of Union County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in Union County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caldwell | on Long Branch, Coosa Bald quadrangle | 3.3 miles north of Townsend Mill | 23 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Hood | on Trackrock Branch, Coosa Bald quadrangle | 1.7 miles east of Fain | 23 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Laura | on Wilson Branch, Coosa Bald quadrangle | 1.7 miles west of Owltown | 23 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Otto | on Gillespie Branch, Coosa Bald quadrangle | 2.3 miles east of Owltown | 23 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Quebec | near Baker Mountain, Neel Gap quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-west of Suches | 24 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Rogers | on Jones Creek, Mulky Gap quadrangle | 0.7 miles south-west of Jones Creek | 23 sheets, 1888 to 1988 | |
| Spilo | on Rogers Branch, Blairsville quadrangle | 0.0 miles east of Spile | 23 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Trackrock | on Stephens Branch, Hiawassee quadrangle | 0.9 miles north-east of Townsend Mill | 24 sheets, 1886 to 1988 | |
| Youngcane | on Watts Creek, Mulky Gap quadrangle | 1.6 miles east of Bunker Hill | 23 sheets, 1888 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.