BlockVanished settlements of Aiken County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 12 places in Aiken County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
12A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apia | Oakwood quadrangle | 2.1 miles south-east of Windsor | 15 sheets, 1920 to 1983 | |
| Baynham | on Beaverdam Branch, Trenton quadrangle | 1.7 miles south-east of Eureka | 18 sheets, 1923 to 1983 | |
| Bush | Jackson quadrangle | 2.0 miles north-west of Cowden | 19 sheets, 1921 to 1982 | |
| Chaffee | Seivern quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-west of Seivern | 12 sheets, 1944 to 1986 | |
| Earle | on Rocky Springs Creek, Foxtown quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-west of Camp Long | 16 sheets, 1920 to 1983 | |
| Hawthorne | New Ellenton SW quadrangle | 4.1 miles north of Johnson Crossroads | 18 sheets, 1920 to 1982 | |
| Merritts Bridge | on Sandy Branch, Foxtown quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-west of Camp Long | 16 sheets, 1920 to 1983 | |
| Milledgeville | on Bear Branch, Trenton quadrangle | 1.5 miles north of Eureka | 18 sheets, 1923 to 1983 | |
| Plunket | on Big Branch, Foxtown quadrangle | 0.2 miles north-west of Camp Long | 16 sheets, 1920 to 1983 | |
| Rennie | on Bridge Creek, Graniteville quadrangle | 0.8 miles east of Gregg Park | 19 sheets, 1923 to 1983 | |
| Savanna Town | on Badger Branch, Augusta East quadrangle | 1.1 miles east of Beech Island | 21 sheets, 1921 to 1995 | |
| Spring Branch | on Buzzard Branch, Williston quadrangle | 2.7 miles south-west of White Pond | 16 sheets, 1923 to 1982 |
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.