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Welcome to Wingard ...

Wingard is located in Pike County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Wingard, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.

Wingard is 510 feet [155 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Wingard lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Wingard: 334 & 483<3>

Communities Also Named Wingard ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Wingard - it's located in Saskatchewan.

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

Communities near Wingard ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Wingard ...

Looking for more information about Wingard? 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 Wingard, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Wingard.

Adding Wingard to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Wingard 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 Wingard was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Wingard post office opened in 1886. The Wingard post office closed in 1909.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Wingard.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Pike, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Wingard - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 334 code has been Overlayed with the 483 area code. New phone numbers in the Wingard area will be assigned with one of these codes: 334 or 483. As a result, placing a call in the Wingard area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/