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Welcome to Gordon Springs ...So far, we found very little information about Gordon Springs. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Gordon Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gordon Springs, please Contact Us. Gordon Springs would have been located within present day Whitfield County<2>. The location of Gordon Springs has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Gordon Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1848. A typical abbreviation for Gordon Springs: Gordon Spgs. (or less commonly used: Gordon Spngs. or Gordon Sprngs.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Gordon Springs is 950 feet [290 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Gordon Springs was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Gordon Springs (for example, toward Ider (AL)), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). The location where Gordon Springs once stood is in the (706) and (762)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Gordon Springs ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Gordon Springs - it's located in South Carolina. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Gordon Springs. Communities near Gordon Springs ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Gordon Springs.
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 Gordon Springs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Gordon Springs. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Gordon Springs. 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 Gordon Springs. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Gordon Springs. See our Newspapers Page for Gordon Springs. Adding Gordon Springs to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Gordon Springs 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 for Gordon Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Gordon Springs in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Gordon Springs. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Whitfield County: www.whitfieldcountyga.com/ The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/ Footnotes ...
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