Do you know of Holton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Holton. 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 Holton.
Our sources for Holton (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Holton other than they indicate that Holton would be found somewhere in Bibb County, Georgia.
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 Holton ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Holton.
Within Georgia, the name Holton 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 ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Holton [Los Angeles County].
- Indiana
- Ripley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Holton [Ripley County].
- Kansas
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Holton [Jackson County].
- Louisiana
- Tangipahoa Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Holton [Tangipahoa Parish].
- Michigan
- Muskegon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Holton [Muskegon County].
- New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Holton [Hillsborough County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Holton.
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Holton.
- Tennessee
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Holton [Campbell County].
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Holton [Morgan County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Holton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Holton:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Holton - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)
Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Holton.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 13/39664 (Place Name: Holton)
County: Bibb (FIPS State/County: 13/021)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Bibb 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 Bibb County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Holton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |