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Maysie

Ghost town · Jeff Davis County, Georgia

Hazlehurst South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)
Hazlehurst South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Maysie is a ghost town in Jeff Davis County, Georgia. It is one of 7 former communities in Jeff Davis County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 26th among the 125 Georgia counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Maysie as a historical populated place on the Hazlehurst South 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 31.8657° N, 82.5379° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHazlehurst South
Elevation253 ft
Nearest living townHazlehurst, GA
Distance to it3.6 miles
GNIS feature ID335122
Coordinates31.86574, -82.53791

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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.

Maysie today, aerial view
Hazlehurst South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: Hazlehurst South quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 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

Maysie is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hazlehurst, GA (population 4,072), about 3.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 253 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 Maysie?

Maysie is in Jeff Davis County, Georgia, at 31.8657, -82.5379.

How many ghost towns are in Jeff Davis County?

Jeff Davis County, Georgia has 7 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.