Welcome to Jamestown ...Jamestown is located in Cherokee County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Jamestown, you might consider that their post office opened in 1891. Jamestown is 780 feet [238 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Jamestown lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Jamestown (for example, toward Lyerly (GA)), you will soon leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Area Codes for Jamestown: 256 & 938<3> Communities Also Named Jamestown ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 68 communities that are also named Jamestown - they are located in Arkansas (2), California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia (4), Idaho (2), Illinois (3), Indiana (3), Iowa (2), Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan (2), Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nebraska, Nevada (2), New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (5), Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (3), Rhode Island, South Carolina (3), Tennessee (4), Texas (4), Utah (2), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Jamestown. Communities near Jamestown ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Jamestown.
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 Jamestown. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Jamestown. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Jamestown. 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 Jamestown. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Jamestown. See our Newspapers Page for Jamestown. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Jamestown ...Looking for more information about Jamestown? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Jamestown, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Jamestown. Adding Jamestown to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Jamestown 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 (so far) for Jamestown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Jamestown. Footnotes ...
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