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Welcome to Chestnutflat ...So far, we found very little information about Chestnutflat. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Chestnutflat to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Chestnutflat, please Contact Us. Chestnutflat would have been located within present day Walker County<2>. The location of Chestnutflat has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Chestnutflat, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was in a book dated 1895. While the community is gone, the present day location for Chestnutflat is 920 feet [280 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Chestnutflat was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Chestnutflat (for example, toward Ider (AL)), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). If Chestnutflat still existed, it would have been in the (706) and (762)<5> area codes. Websites for Chestnutflat ...Chamber of Commerce: www.walkercochamber.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Chestnutflat, the following might be of interest: Communities near Chestnutflat ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Chestnutflat.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Chestnutflat. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Chestnutflat. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Chestnutflat. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chestnutflat. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Chestnutflat. See our Newspapers Page for Chestnutflat. Adding Chestnutflat to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Chestnutflat in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Chestnutflat was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Chestnutflat. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Walker County: www.co.walker.ga.us/ The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/ Footnotes ...
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