Do you know of Bankston ???

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

Our sources for Bankston (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 Bankston other than they indicate that Bankston would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1853 and closed  in 1855.

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 Bankston ...

We found three communities that share the name Bankston.

Within Georgia, the name Bankston is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Fayette County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bankston [Fayette County].
  • Iowa
    • Dubuque County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bankston [Dubuque County].
  • Mississippi
    • Choctaw County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bankston [Choctaw County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bankston ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Map from 1865 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Monroe County ...

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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 Monroe County.