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Welcome to Fort Screven ...

Fort Screven is located in Chatham County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fort Screven, you might consider that their post office opened in 1904.

A typical abbreviation for Fort Screven: Ft. Screven

Fort Screven is near sea level<2>.

Time Zone: Fort Screven lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Fort Screven: 912 & 565<3>

Communities near Fort Screven ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Fort Screven ...

Looking for more information about Fort Screven? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Fort Screven, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Fort Screven.

Adding Fort Screven to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fort Screven in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Fort Screven was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Fort Screven post office opened in 1904. The Fort Screven post office closed in 1967.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fort Screven.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Georgia's counties, including Chatham, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fort Screven - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 912 code has been Overlayed with the 565 area code. New phone numbers in the Fort Screven area will be assigned with one of these codes: 912 or 565. As a result, placing a call in the Fort Screven area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/