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Bayboro

Ghost town · Colquitt County, Georgia

Ellenton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1974, 1:24,000)
Ellenton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1974, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bayboro is a ghost town in Colquitt County, Georgia. It is one of 4 former communities in Colquitt County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 52nd among the 125 Georgia counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bayboro as a historical populated place on the Ellenton topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.1660° N, 83.5679° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleEllenton
Elevation225 ft
Nearest living townEllenton, GA
Distance to it1.4 miles
GNIS feature ID343920
Coordinates31.16602, -83.56794

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Bayboro today, aerial view
Ellenton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1974, 1:24,000)

Left: Ellenton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1974, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Bayboro is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ellenton, GA (population 306), about 1.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 225 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Bayboro?

Bayboro is in Colquitt County, Georgia, at 31.1660, -83.5679.

How many ghost towns are in Colquitt County?

Colquitt County, Georgia has 4 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.