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Welcome to Edwardsville ...

So far, we found very little information about Edwardsville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Edwardsville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Edwardsville, please Contact Us.

Edwardsville would have been located within present day Fulton County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Edwardsville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1876.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Edwardsville is 920 feet [280 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Edwardsville was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Edwardsville and travel west, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

The Area Codes where Edwardsville was located: 404, 470, 678 & 770<4>

Communities Also Named Edwardsville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Edwardsville - they are located in Alabama (3), Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Virginia (2).

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

Communities near Edwardsville ...

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

  • Atlanta
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • South Fulton
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • South Fulton is located in Fulton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fulton
  • Roswell
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Johns Creek
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Alpharetta
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Marietta
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Smyrna
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Stonecrest
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Stonecrest is located in DeKalb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecrest
  • Dunwoody West
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Dunwoody West is located in DeKalb County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunwoody West
    • Estimated population in 2015: 48,733 people
  • Peachtree Corners
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)

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

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

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

Adding Edwardsville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Edwardsville in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Edwardsville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Edwardsville post office opened in 1876. The Edwardsville post office closed in 1892.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Edwardsville.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Edwardsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Georgia's counties, including Fulton, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Edwardsville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 404 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 470, 678 or 770. New phone numbers in the Edwardsville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 404, 470, 678 or 770. As a result, placing a call in the Edwardsville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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/