Do you know of Whetstone ???

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

We found mention of Whetstone as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Franklin County, Ohio.

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.

Communities Also Named Whetstone ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Whetstone.

There are two communities within Ohio that are also named Whetstone.

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

Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Whetstone [Crawford County].
- Morrow 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 Whetstone [Morrow County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Cochise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Whetstone [Cochise County].
- Kentucky
  - Cumberland 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 Kentucky community of Whetstone [Cumberland County].
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Whetstone [Pulaski County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Whetstone [Montgomery County].
- North Carolina
  - Granville 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 North Carolina community of Whetstone [Granville County].
- South Carolina
  - Oconee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Whetstone [Oconee County].
- Tennessee
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Whetstone [Morgan County].
- Washington
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Whetstone [Columbia County].
- West Virginia
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Whetstone [Clay County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whetstone ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Franklin 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 Franklin County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Whetstone 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.