BlockVanished settlements of Dorchester County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Dorchester County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cattle Creek | Reevesville quadrangle | 1.5 miles north-east of Dorange | 18 sheets, 1920 to 1990 | |
| Cow Tail | on Cowtail Creek, Saint George quadrangle | 1.3 miles north of Old Saint George | 18 sheets, 1920 to 1990 | |
| Dorchester | on Sawmill Branch, Stallsville quadrangle | 0.2 miles south-east of Waters Edge | 18 sheets, 1920 to 1990 | |
| Inabinetts | on Timothy Creek, Ridgeville quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-east of Ridgeville | 17 sheets, 1919 to 1990 | |
| Laurence | on Green Bay Branch, Ridgeville quadrangle | 1.2 miles south-east of Jedburg | 17 sheets, 1919 to 1990 | |
| Waringville | near Rosom Hill, Clubhouse Crossroads quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-west of Canaan | 16 sheets, 1918 to 1990 | |
| Winwright | Clubhouse Crossroads quadrangle | 2.3 miles north-west of Clubhouse Crossroads | 16 sheets, 1918 to 1990 |
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.