BlockVanished settlements of Oconee County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 6 places in Oconee County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
6A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conneross | on Negro Fork, Westminster quadrangle | 2.4 miles east of Poplar Springs Ridge | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Ensenaka | on Seneca Creek, Clemson quadrangle | 1.4 miles north-west of Royal Acres | 19 sheets, 1888 to 1991 | |
| Harbin | on Toxaway Creek, Holly Springs quadrangle | 2.3 miles east of Percival Crossroads | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Horse Shoe | on Ramsey Creek, Holly Springs quadrangle | 1.3 miles north-east of Chauga Heights | 17 sheets, 1886 to 1981 | |
| Jocassee | on Whitewater River, Salem quadrangle | 0.1 miles west of Jocassee | 19 sheets, 1888 to 1996 | |
| Russell | on Russell Mountain, Satolah quadrangle | 1.0 miles south-west of Long Bottom Ford | 18 sheets, 1886 to 1981 |
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.