BlockVanished settlements of Abbeville County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 17 places in Abbeville County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
17A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cana | on Grays Creek, Abbeville East quadrangle | 4.1 miles north of Smithville | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Chesnut Hill | Calhoun Falls quadrangle | 1.8 miles north-east of Watts | 14 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Crosby | Honea Path quadrangle | 2.4 miles north-east of Broadmouth | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Dann | Ware Shoals West quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of Foxville Crossroads | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Diamond Hill Spring | Lowndesville quadrangle | 3.6 miles east of Lowndesville | 14 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Dover | on Park Creek, Abbeville West quadrangle | 2.6 miles west of Brownlee Crossroads | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Dresden | on McKenley Creek, Calhoun Falls quadrangle | 3.3 miles north-east of Watts | 14 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Duke | Lowndesville quadrangle | 3.1 miles east of Lowndesville | 14 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Hammett | on Gypsy Creek, Shoals Junction quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Donalds | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Long Cane | on McCord Creek, Abbeville East quadrangle | 3.4 miles north-west of Abbeville | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Millers Grove | on Little Curltail Creek, Abbeville East quadrangle | 2.4 miles north-east of Smithville | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Millwood | on Calhoun Branch, Heardmont quadrangle | 2.3 miles east of Hester | 14 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Monterey | Latimer quadrangle | 3.5 miles south-east of Watts | 12 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Murray | Ware Shoals West quadrangle | 1.8 miles south-east of Foxville Crossroads | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| Rocky River | Lowndesville quadrangle | 3.2 miles south-east of Latimer | 14 sheets, 1893 to 1979 | |
| Smithville | Abbeville East quadrangle | 0.6 miles north-east of Smithville | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1979 | |
| The Hook | on Long Branch, Due West quadrangle | 1.9 miles north-east of Winona | 13 sheets, 1892 to 1979 |
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.