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Welcome to Wills ...So far, we found very little information about Wills. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Wills to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Wills, please Contact Us. Wills would have been located within present day DeKalb County<2>. The location of Wills has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Wills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1882. While the community is gone, the present day location for Wills is 1,170 feet [357 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Wills was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Wills (for example, toward Lyerly (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Wills would have been located in the (256) & (938)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Wills ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Wills - they are located in Ohio, Tennessee (2), West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Wills. Communities near Wills ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Wills.
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 Wills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Wills. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Wills. 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 Wills. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Wills. See our Newspapers Page for Wills. Adding Wills to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Wills 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 Wills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Wills in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Wills. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for DeKalb County: www.dekalbcountyal.us/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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