Do you know of Atkinson ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Atkinson. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Atkinson.

Our sources for Atkinson (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Atkinson other than they indicate that Atkinson would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Georgia.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Atkinson ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Atkinson.

There is one other community in Georgia which is also named Atkinson.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Brantley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Atkinson [Brantley County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Clarke County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Atkinson [Clarke County].
- Illinois
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Atkinson [Henry County].
- Indiana
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Atkinson [Benton County].
- Kentucky
  - Hopkins County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Atkinson [Hopkins County].
- Maine
  - Piscataquis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Atkinson [Piscataquis County].
- Maryland
  - Somerset County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Atkinson [Somerset County].
- Michigan
  - Iron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Atkinson [Iron County].
- Minnesota
  - Carlton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Atkinson [Carlton County].
- Nebraska
  - Holt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Atkinson [Holt County].
- New Hampshire
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Atkinson [Rockingham County].
- North Carolina
  - Pender County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Atkinson [Pender County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Atkinson.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Atkinson.
- Utah
  - Summit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Atkinson [Summit County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Atkinson [King County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Atkinson ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Atkinson:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Atkinson - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)

Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Wayne County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Wayne County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Atkinson could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.