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Do you know of Ansley ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ansley. 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 Ansley.

Our sources for Ansley (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 Ansley other than they indicate that Ansley would be found somewhere in Tift County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1901 and closed  in 1907.

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 Ansley ...

We found six communities that share the name Ansley.

There are two communities within Georgia that are also named Ansley.

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

  • Communities Located In Georgia ...
    • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ansley [Warren County].
    • Worth 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 Ansley [Worth County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ansley [Pike County].
    • Louisiana
      • Jackson Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ansley [Jackson Parish].
    • Mississippi
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ansley [Hancock County].
    • Nebraska
      • Custer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Ansley [Custer County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ansley ...

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

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

Map from 1910 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Tift 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 Tift County.

DosiaSutton
  
FenderUnionburg
 Urbana
South Tifton 

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 Ansley 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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