BlockVanished settlements of York County, South Carolina
The Geographic Names Information System records 9 places in York County, South Carolina that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
9A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty Spot | on Beaverdam Creek, Hickory Grove quadrangle | 2.7 miles north-east of Hopewell | 16 sheets, 1907 to 1986 | |
| Belmont | Lake Wylie quadrangle | 0.4 miles east of Hickory Hill | 16 sheets, 1947 to 1993 | |
| Bethel | on Camp Run, Clover quadrangle | 3.0 miles east of Five Points | 14 sheets, 1947 to 1991 | |
| Borax | on Prater Branch, Hickory Grove quadrangle | 1.9 miles south-east of Bullock Creek | 16 sheets, 1907 to 1986 | |
| Cotton | Lockhart quadrangle | 1.7 miles north of Bullock Creek | 16 sheets, 1907 to 1986 | |
| Gould | on Bullock Creek, Lockhart quadrangle | 2.1 miles east of Bullock Creek | 16 sheets, 1907 to 1986 | |
| Nauvassee | Rock Hill East quadrangle | 1.0 miles north-west of Kanawha Hills | 15 sheets, 1941 to 1986 | |
| Sutton Spring | on Ross Branch, Sharon quadrangle | 2.9 miles east of York | 15 sheets, 1907 to 1986 | |
| Zadok | Filbert quadrangle | 2.5 miles south-east of Filbert | 18 sheets, 1906 to 1991 |
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.