Do you know of Wayland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wayland. 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 Wayland.
Our sources for Wayland (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 Wayland other than they indicate that Wayland would be found somewhere in Liberty County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1903 and closed in 1913.
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 Wayland ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Wayland.
Within Georgia, the name Wayland is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Idaho
- Benewah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Wayland [Benewah County].
- Illinois
- Schuyler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wayland [Schuyler County].
- Iowa
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wayland [Henry County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wayland [Floyd County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Wayland [Middlesex County].
- Michigan
- Allegan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Wayland [Allegan County].
- Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Wayland [Koochiching County].
- Missouri
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wayland [Clark County].
- Nebraska
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Wayland [Polk County].
- New York
- Steuben County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wayland [Steuben County].
- Ohio
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wayland [Portage County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wayland.
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wayland [Umatilla County].
- Pennsylvania
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wayland [Crawford County].
- Rhode Island
- Providence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Wayland [Providence County].
- Texas
- Stephens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wayland [Stephens County].
- Virginia
- Chesterfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wayland [Chesterfield County].
- Scott County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wayland [Scott County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wayland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wayland:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Liberty 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 Liberty County.
| Aimar | |
| Arcadia | Lenas |
| Bacot | Onida |
| Banner | |
| Beards Creek | Paxton |
| Brown | |
| Signboard | |
| Duncan | Smiley |
| Strumbay | |
| Gertrude | |
| Thebes | |
| Johnston Station | |
| Josselyn | Yellow Bluff Fishing Village |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Wayland 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |