Do you know of Hemphill ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1885 and closed  in 1904.

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 Hemphill ...

We found four communities that share the name Hemphill.

Within Georgia, the name Hemphill is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Letcher County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hemphill [Letcher County].
  • Louisiana
    • Rapides Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hemphill [Rapides Parish].
  • Texas
    • Sabine County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hemphill [Sabine County].
  • West Virginia
    • McDowell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hemphill [McDowell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hemphill ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)

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

More Orphans in  Fulton County ...

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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 Fulton County.