BlockVanished settlements of Darlington County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Darlington County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
5A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenplains | Dovesville quadrangle | 1.3 miles south-west of Birdstown Crossroads | 6 sheets, 1953 to 1983 | |
| Leavensworth | on Everlasting Branch, Dovesville quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Antioch | 6 sheets, 1953 to 1983 | |
| Lumber | Mont Clare quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-west of Mont Clare | 6 sheets, 1953 to 1983 | |
| Philadelphia | Timmonsville quadrangle | 0.6 miles south-east of Jackson Crossroads | 10 sheets, 1940 to 1986 | |
| Springville | Darlington East quadrangle | 1.4 miles south-west of Liberty Heights | 7 sheets, 1953 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.