Do you know of Kemp ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1892 and closed  in 1905.

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 Kemp ...

We found nine communities that share the name Kemp.

There is one other community in Georgia which is also named Kemp.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Located In Georgia ...
  • Hall County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kemp [Hall County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Ouachita County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kemp [Ouachita County].
  • Illinois
    • Douglas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kemp [Douglas County].
  • Kentucky
    • Adair County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Kemp [Adair County].
  • Nebraska
    • Morrill County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Kemp [Morrill County].
  • New Mexico
    • Bernalillo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Kemp [Bernalillo County].
  • Ohio
    • Allen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kemp [Allen County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Bryan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Kemp [Bryan County].
  • Texas
    • Kaufman County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kemp [Kaufman County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kemp ...

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

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

Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)

Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Kemp.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 13/43164   (Place Name: Kemp)

County: Emanuel     (FIPS State/County: 13/107)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Kemp) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

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.