BlockVanished settlements of Chesterfield County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 11 places in Chesterfield County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
11A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catoe | on Tavern Branch, Chesterfield quadrangle | 1.8 miles east of Chesterfield | 12 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Excelsior | Cheraw quadrangle | 0.5 miles north-west of Isgett Circle | 8 sheets, 1942 to 1983 | |
| Gillespie | Cheraw quadrangle | 3.1 miles north-west of Hunts Mill | 8 sheets, 1942 to 1983 | |
| Hunts Spring | on Rocky Prong, Chesterfield quadrangle | 0.5 miles west of Hunts Mill | 12 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Junction | Angelus quadrangle | 3.9 miles north-west of Angelus | 12 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Laneys | Morven East quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-east of Robinson | 10 sheets, 1942 to 1983 | |
| Mangums | Hornsboro quadrangle | 2.6 miles south of Evans Mill | 13 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| McNeils | on Beaver Creek, Cheraw quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-east of Fisher Hill | 8 sheets, 1942 to 1983 | |
| Rivers | on Abrams Creek, Chesterfield quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-west of Chesterfield | 12 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Tabernacle | Lake Robinson quadrangle | 0.5 miles south of Leland | 15 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Thompsons | on Sixmile Creek, Cheraw quadrangle | 2.6 miles east of Isgett Circle | 8 sheets, 1942 to 1983 |
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.