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High Springs

Ghost town · Turner County, Georgia

Sylvester quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500)
Sylvester quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

High Springs is a ghost town in Turner County, Georgia. It is one of 4 former communities in Turner County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 125 Georgia counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists High Springs as a historical populated place on the Cuffietown 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 31.6813° N, 83.7866° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCuffietown
Elevation387 ft
Nearest living townAshburn, GA
Distance to it8.1 miles
GNIS feature ID343209
Coordinates31.68129, -83.78656

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.

High Springs today, aerial view
Sylvester quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500)

Left: Sylvester quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500), 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

High Springs is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ashburn, GA (population 4,226), about 8.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 387 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 High Springs?

High Springs is in Turner County, Georgia, at 31.6813, -83.7866.

How many ghost towns are in Turner County?

Turner 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.