BlockVanished settlements of Lexington County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 5 places in Lexington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Althea | on Long Branch, Steedman quadrangle | 1.2 miles north-west of Samaria | 12 sheets, 1944 to 1986 | |
| Congaree | on Scouter Branch, Lexington quadrangle | 1.4 miles north of White Knoll | 13 sheets, 1944 to 1983 | |
| Hall | on Thrasher Branch, Steedman quadrangle | 0.5 miles south-east of Samaria | 12 sheets, 1944 to 1986 | |
| Shuler | on Bear Creek, Lexington quadrangle | 0.8 miles north-west of Blue Ridge Terrace | 13 sheets, 1944 to 1983 | |
| Styx | on First Creek, Southwest Columbia quadrangle | 0.7 miles west of South Congaree | 13 sheets, 1944 to 1994 |
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.