Welcome to Gilkey ...So far, we found very little information about Gilkey. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Gilkey to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gilkey, please Contact Us. Gilkey would have been located within present day Yell County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Gilkey, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879. While the community is gone, the present day location for Gilkey is 420 feet [128 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: The area where Gilkey was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where Gilkey was located: 479 Communities Also Named Gilkey ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Gilkey - it's located in North Carolina. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Gilkey. Communities near Gilkey ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Gilkey.
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 Gilkey. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Gilkey. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Gilkey. 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 Gilkey. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Gilkey. See our Newspapers Page for Gilkey. Adding Gilkey to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Gilkey 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 Gilkey was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Gilkey. Footnotes ...
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