Vanished settlements of Wilkes County, Georgia

The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Wilkes County, Georgia that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

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.

Place	Where it stood	Nearest place today	Mapped
Armstrong	Celeste quadrangle	2.3 miles west of Prather	12 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Bessie	on Williamson Branch, Celeste quadrangle	0.2 miles south of New Town	12 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Chatfield	on Dry Fork Creek, Jacksons Crossroads quadrangle	1.2 miles south-east of Jacksons Crossroads	12 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Dyson	Broad quadrangle	1.3 miles south-west of Broad	13 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Lina	Washington West quadrangle	3.7 miles south of Tyrone	13 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Possie	on Benson Branch, Tignall quadrangle	1.9 miles north-east of Floral Hill	13 sheets, 1906 to 1988
Thaxton	on Hood Branch, Rayle quadrangle	1.3 miles south-east of Callaway	12 sheets, 1906 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.