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Vanished settlements of Chester County, South Carolina

The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Chester County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.

No longer settlements

6

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.

Where in the county PlaceWhere it stood Nearest place today Mapped
BinghamtownRichburg quadrangle1.9 miles north of Richburg12 sheets, 1941 to 1986
CalvinArmenia quadrangle4.1 miles south of Wilksburg15 sheets, 1907 to 1986
ClarksonArmenia quadrangle2.5 miles south-east of Armenia15 sheets, 1907 to 1986
FudgesFort Lawn quadrangle1.6 miles south of Fort Lawn12 sheets, 1941 to 1986
LewisvilleRichburg quadrangle1.9 miles south of Richburg12 sheets, 1941 to 1986
Tip Topon Barbers Creek, Richburg quadrangle2.7 miles south of Wellridge12 sheets, 1941 to 1986

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.