Do you know of Whaley ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1900 and closed  in 1912.

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 Whaley ...

We found five communities that share the name Whaley.

Within Georgia, the name Whaley is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Mississippi
    • Carroll County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Whaley [Carroll County].
  • North Carolina
    • Avery County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Whaley [Avery County].
  • South Carolina
    • Barnwell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Whaley [Barnwell County].
  • Texas
    • Bowie County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Whaley [Bowie County].
  • Virginia
    • Suffolk City
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Whaley [Suffolk City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whaley ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Hancock 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 Hancock County.