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Do you know of Atwood ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Atwood. 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 Atwood.

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1895.

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 Atwood ...

We found 26 communities that share the name Atwood.

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

Beyond Georgia, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Georgia ...
    • Ware 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 Georgia community of Atwood [Ware County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Atwood [Franklin County].
    • Arkansas
      • Howard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Atwood [Howard County].
    • California
      • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Atwood [Orange County].
    • Colorado
      • Logan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Atwood [Logan County].
    • Illinois
      • Piatt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Atwood [Piatt County].
    • Indiana
      • Kosciusko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Atwood [Kosciusko County].
    • Iowa
      • Keokuk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Atwood [Keokuk County].
    • Kansas
      • Rawlins County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Atwood [Rawlins County].
    • Kentucky
      • Kenton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Atwood [Kenton County].
    • Michigan
      • Antrim County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Atwood [Antrim County].
      • Tuscola 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 Michigan community of Atwood [Tuscola County].
    • Minnesota
      • Hennepin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Atwood [Hennepin County].
    • Nevada
      • Nye County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Atwood [Nye County].
    • New York
      • Ulster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Atwood [Ulster County].
    • North Carolina
      • Forsyth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Atwood [Forsyth County].
    • Ohio
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Atwood [Carroll County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Hughes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Atwood [Hughes County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Atwood.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Armstrong County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Atwood [Armstrong County].
    • Tennessee
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Atwood [Carroll County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Atwood [Salt Lake County].
    • Virginia
      • Patrick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Atwood [Patrick County].
    • Washington
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Atwood [Grant County].
    • West Virginia
      • Tyler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Atwood [Tyler County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Atwood [Clark County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Atwood ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Atwood - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Sumter 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 Sumter County.

BotsfordMuckalee
  
Chamblis MillNewpoint
Chambliss 
 Ogden
East Americus 
EllavillePlains Of Dura
 Providence
Foster 
 Roney
Hudson 
 Salter
JordanvilleSarah
 Shipps Spur
Leslie - DeSotoSouth Americus
Leslie Station 
LittlejohnTropic
  
MarketYaw

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Atwood 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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