Do you know of Flanders ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 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 Flanders ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Flanders.

Within Georgia, the name Flanders is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • DeKalb County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Flanders [DeKalb County].
  • Connecticut
    • Litchfield County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Flanders [Litchfield County].
    • New Haven County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Flanders [New Haven County].
    • New London County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Flanders [New London County].
  • Louisiana
    • Lafayette Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Flanders [Lafayette Parish].
  • Michigan
    • Alpena County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Flanders [Alpena County].
  • New Jersey
    • Morris County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Flanders [Morris County].
  • New York
    • Suffolk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Flanders [Suffolk County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Flanders.
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Flanders.
  • Texas
    • Val Verde County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Flanders [Val Verde County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Flanders ...

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

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

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

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

Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Emanuel 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 Emanuel County.