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Welcome to Wesley ...So far, we found very little information about Wesley. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Wesley to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Wesley, please Contact Us. Wesley would have been located within present day Wood County<2>. The location of Wesley has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Wesley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1889. While the community is gone, the present day location for Wesley is 740 feet [226 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Wesley was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Wesley once stood is in the (304) and (681)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Wesley ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 26 communities that are also named Wesley - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia (3), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland (2), Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio (3), Oklahoma, Ontario (2), Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Wesley. Communities near Wesley ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Wesley.
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 Wesley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Wesley. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Wesley. 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 Wesley. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Wesley. See our Newspapers Page for Wesley. Adding Wesley to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Wesley 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 Wesley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Wesley in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Wesley. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Wood County: www.woodcountywv.com/ The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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