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Welcome to Walnut Hill ...So far, we found very little information about Walnut Hill. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Walnut Hill to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Walnut Hill, please Contact Us. Walnut Hill would have been located within present day Franklin County<2>. The location of Walnut Hill has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Walnut Hill, you might consider that their post office opened in 1838. While the community is gone, the present day location for Walnut Hill is 830 feet [253 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Walnut Hill was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Walnut Hill would have been located in the (706) & (762)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Walnut Hill ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 36 communities that are also named Walnut Hill - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas (2), Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky (2), Louisiana (2), Maine (2), Maryland (2), Massachusetts (2), Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina, Tennessee (4), Virginia (3) and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Walnut Hill. Communities near Walnut Hill ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Walnut Hill.
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 Walnut Hill. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Walnut Hill. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Walnut Hill. 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 Walnut Hill. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Walnut Hill. See our Newspapers Page for Walnut Hill. Adding Walnut Hill to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Walnut Hill in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Walnut Hill was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Walnut Hill in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). For more details, see References and Mentions for Walnut Hill. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/ Footnotes ...
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