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Welcome to Williamsville ...

So far, we found very little information about Williamsville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Williamsville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Williamsville, please Contact Us.


Williamsville would have been located within present day Dickson County<2>.


The location of Williamsville has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Williamsville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1832.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Williamsville is 600 feet [183 m] above sea level.<4>.

Time Zone: The area where Williamsville was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Williamsville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named Williamsville - they are located in Delaware (2), Illinois, Massachusetts (2), Michigan (2), Mississippi (3), Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario (2), Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Williamsville.

Communities near Williamsville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Williamsville.

  • Oakridge
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oakridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakridge
    • Oakridge is located in Montgomery County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 29,303 people
  • Dickson
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Brownsville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownsville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
    • Brownsville is located in Houston County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 9,974 people
  • Halls Creek
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halls Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls Creek
    • Halls Creek is located in Humphreys County
  • Pigeon Roost
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pigeon Roost have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Roost
    • Pigeon Roost is located in Humphreys County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 6,132 people
  • Waverly
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • White Bluff
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Bluff have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Bluff
    • White Bluff is located in Dickson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,689 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White Bluff <5>
  • McEwen
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McEwen
    • McEwen is located in Humphreys County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,743 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McEwen <5>
  • Charlotte
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Burns
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
    • Burns is located in Dickson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,550 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burns <5>

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 Williamsville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Williamsville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Williamsville. 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 Williamsville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Williamsville. See our Newspapers Page for Williamsville.

Adding Williamsville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Williamsville in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Williamsville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Williamsville post office opened in 1832.

We also found Williamsville in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Williamsville.

The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Williamsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Dickson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Williamsville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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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