BlockVanished settlements of White County, Georgia
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in White County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastburn | near Tatum Mountain, Leaf quadrangle | 0.2 miles north of Stovall Mill | 19 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Lynch | on Sautee Creek, Helen quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-west of Sautee | 20 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Naguchee | near Nacoochee Indian Mound, Helen quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-west of Nacoochee | 20 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Oculus | Cleveland quadrangle | 2.6 miles east of Leo | 19 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Pleasant Retreat | on Town Creek, Cleveland quadrangle | 2.4 miles south of Tesnatee | 19 sheets, 1886 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.