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Edwardsville

Ghost town · Fulton County, Georgia

Decatur quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:24,000)
Decatur quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Edwardsville is a ghost town in Fulton County, Georgia. It is one of 11 former communities in Fulton County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 125 Georgia counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Edwardsville as a historical populated place on the Northeast Atlanta 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 33.8329° N, 84.3616° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleNortheast Atlanta
Elevation909 ft
Nearest living townNorth Druid Hills, GA
Distance to it2.2 miles
GNIS feature ID1704907
Coordinates33.83288, -84.36159

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.

Edwardsville today, aerial view
Decatur quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:24,000)

Left: Decatur quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 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

Edwardsville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is North Druid Hills, GA (population 18,172), about 2.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 909 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 Edwardsville?

Edwardsville is in Fulton County, Georgia, at 33.8329, -84.3616.

How many ghost towns are in Fulton County?

Fulton County, Georgia has 11 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.