BlockVanished settlements of Edgefield County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Edgefield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafton | on Monday Branch, Ropers Crossroads quadrangle | 3.1 miles south of Murphys Estates | 17 sheets, 1923 to 1983 | |
| Highview | on Spring Branch, Ropers Crossroads quadrangle | 3.2 miles north-west of Ropers Crossroads | 17 sheets, 1923 to 1983 | |
| Lenoir | on Hardy Branch, Martinez quadrangle | 2.1 miles west of Morgana | 25 sheets, 1892 to 1988 | |
| Lime Stone | on Stockman Branch, Limestone quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-east of Limestone | 15 sheets, 1892 to 1988 | |
| New Richmond | Martinez quadrangle | 1.9 miles north of Poverty Hill | 25 sheets, 1892 to 1988 | |
| Swearingen | on Quarles Creek, Ropers Crossroads quadrangle | 4.1 miles south-west of Ropers Crossroads | 17 sheets, 1923 to 1983 | |
| Wise | Ropers Crossroads quadrangle | 3.5 miles west of Ropers Crossroads | 17 sheets, 1923 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.