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Do you know of Wise ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wise. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Wise.

Our sources for Wise (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Wise other than they indicate that Wise would be found somewhere in Chambers County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1909.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Wise ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Wise.

Within Alabama, the name Wise is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Columbia County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wise [Columbia County].
      • Ouachita County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wise [Ouachita County].
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Wise [Los Angeles County].
    • Georgia
      • Bibb County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wise [Bibb County].
      • Oglethorpe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wise [Oglethorpe County].
    • Iowa
      • Buchanan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wise [Buchanan County].
    • Kansas
      • Allen County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wise [Allen County].
    • Louisiana
      • Lincoln Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Wise [Lincoln Parish].
    • Michigan
      • Isabella County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Wise [Isabella County].
    • Missouri
      • Barton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wise [Barton County].
    • North Carolina
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wise [Warren County].
    • Ohio
      • Monroe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wise [Monroe County].
    • South Carolina
      • Chester County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wise [Chester County].
      • Edgefield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wise [Edgefield County].
    • Texas
      • Hopkins County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wise [Hopkins County].
      • Van Zandt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wise [Van Zandt County].
    • Virginia
      • Wise County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wise [Wise County].
    • West Virginia
      • Monongalia County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wise [Monongalia County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wise ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wise:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wise - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Chambers County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Chambers County.

AycockMeadows
 Mount Hickory
Barber 
Boyd's TankPiedmont Heights
  
DawsRedland Heights
DriversRoxana
  
Happy LandSandy Creek
Hickory Flat 
 Ward
JarrettWelsh
 Wickliffe

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Wise could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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