BlockVanished settlements of Bamberg County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Bamberg County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fogles | Denmark quadrangle | 1.9 miles west of Lees | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1982 | |
| Garris | Denmark quadrangle | 4.4 miles north of Lees | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1982 | |
| Loraine | on Stout Creek, Bamberg quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Finland | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1982 | |
| Luther | on Long Gall Branch, Denmark quadrangle | 3.5 miles north of Denmark | 15 sheets, 1919 to 1982 | |
| Millersville | on Lemon Creek, Tony Hill Bay quadrangle | 3.7 miles south-west of Hughes | 18 sheets, 1919 to 1990 | |
| Ott | Bamberg quadrangle | 2.1 miles west of Sato | 15 sheets, 1919 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.