Do you know of Hells Gate ???

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

Our sources for Hells Gate (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 Hells Gate other than they indicate that Hells Gate would be found somewhere in Baker County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1891.

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 Hells Gate ...

We found one communities that share the name Hells Gate.

Within Georgia, the name Hells Gate is unique.

Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Hells Gate in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Hells Gate.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hells Gate ...

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

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 Hells Gate - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Cities, Towns and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962
Written by: Hemperly, Marion R.
Published by the Southern Historical Press, 1980
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Baker 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 Baker County.