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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Wise. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Wise to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Wise, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Wise (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Wise. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Wise is historic, it would have been located within present day Oglethorpe County.
To see how the shape of Georgia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Oglethorpe County: Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Madison, Taliaferro & Wilkes.
Below are the counties that are near Wise. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wise:
- Oglethorpe County (The home county of Wise)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Palmetto
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Palmetto is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto
- Veribest
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Veribest is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veribest
- Estimated population in 2019: 124 people
- Lexington
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Crawford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Stephens
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Maxeys
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Arnoldsville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Cherokee Corner ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Cherokee Corner is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Corner
- Clarke County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Winterville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Cedar Shoals Estates
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Cedar Shoals Estates is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Shoals Estates
- Population from the 2010 Census: 74 people
- Chamberlin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Chamberlin is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlin
- Estimated population in 2019: 30,307 people
- Lexington Heights
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Lexington Heights is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington Heights
- Estimated population in 2019: 228 people
- Athens
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Riverside
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Riverside is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Estimated population in 2016: 35 people
- Jefferson Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Jefferson Valley is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Valley
- Estimated population in 2019: 939 people
- Pine Lake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Pine Lake is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Lake
- Estimated population in 2019: 754 people
- Elbert County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Elberton
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Silk Mills
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Silk Mills is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silk Mills
- Estimated population in 2019: 277 people
- Goss
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Goss is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goss
- Dewy Rose
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Harmony
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Harmony is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
- Harper
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Harper is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Bowman
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Centerville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Centerville is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Bowman Ferry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bowman Ferry is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 808 people
- Edinburg ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Edinburg is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,396 people
- Franklin County
- Royston
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Daniel Springs
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Daniel Springs is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniel Springs
- Estimated population in 2019: 594 people
- Durham Town
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Durham Town is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham Town
- Woodville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Woodville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 397 people
- Jacksonville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Jacksonville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
- Estimated population in 2019: 133 people
- Union Point
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Scull Shoals ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Scull Shoals is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scull Shoals
- Siloam
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Greensboro
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- White Plains
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Swaggy Valley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Swaggy Valley is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swaggy Valley
- Estimated population in 2019: 7,542 people
- Hancock County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Gum Hill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Gum Hill is located in Hancock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Hill
- Population from the 2010 Census: 2,146 people
- Springfield
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Springfield is located in Hancock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Lincoln County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Lisbon ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Lisbon is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
- Midway
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Hesters Ferry
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Hesters Ferry is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesters Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 911 people
- Goshen
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Goshen is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Lincolnton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Loce
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Loce is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loce
- Madison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Carlton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Comer
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Colbert
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Patterson
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Patterson is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Estimated population in 2019: 755 people
- Hull
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Danielsville
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Dalton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Dalton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalton
- Estimated population in 2019: 33,665 people
- Harrison
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Harrison is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Estimated population in 2019: 442 people
- Madison Springs
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Madison Springs is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Springs
- Estimated population in 2019: 4,210 people
- Former name for Madison Springs:
- Alexanderville
- Planter
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Planter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planter
- Ila
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Shiloh
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Shiloh is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
- McDuffie County
- Columbia Mine ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Columbia Mine is located in McDuffie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Mine
- Estimated population in 2019: 195,769 people
- Morgan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Buckhead
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Smyrna
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Smyrna is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
- Oconee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Marshall Estates
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Marshall Estates is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall Estates
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,227 people
- Spartan Lane
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Spartan Lane is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spartan Lane
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,230 people
- Watkinsville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Farmington
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Bishop
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Cumberland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Cumberland is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
- Estimated population in 2019: 6,547 people
- Overlook Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Overlook Village is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overlook Village
- Eastville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Eastville is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastville
- High Shoals
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- North High Shoals
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- North High Shoals is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North High Shoals
- Population from the 2020 Census: 736 people
- Taliaferro County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Carters Grove
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Carters Grove is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Grove
- Estimated population in 2019: 21,760 people
- Springfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Springfield is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Crawfordville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Sharon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Raytown
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Raytown is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raytown
- Warren County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Barnett
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Barnett is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnett
- Cadley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Cadley is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadley
- Estimated population in 2019: 540 people
- Wilkes County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Centerville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Centerville is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Rayle
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- New Town
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- New Town is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town
- Tignall
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Tyrone
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tyrone is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyrone
- Washington
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lundberg
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Lundberg is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundberg
- Estimated population in 2019: 831 people
- Abbeville County (SC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Calhoun Falls
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Latimer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Latimer is located in Abbeville County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimer
- Lowndesville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- McCormick County (SC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Mount Carmel
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Willington
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Willington is located in McCormick County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willington
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wise, see our County-by-County Page for Wise.
Cemeteries Near Wise ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wise.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Wise - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wise covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Chafin Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Reece Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Faust Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Wynne Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Rock Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Sardis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- McCannon Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Bridges Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Echols - Eckles Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Earl Bolton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Watkins Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Tiller Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (429 more) ...
- Milner Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cliffords Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Clarks Station Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find Wise in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wise.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wise, with the one closest to Wise listed first.
- Anon ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Anon is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anon
- Vesta
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Vesta is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesta
- Sandy Cross
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sandy Cross is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Cross
- Lexington
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Point Peter
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Point Peter is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Peter
- Philomath
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Philomath is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philomath
- Bessie ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Bessie is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessie
- Lina ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lina is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lina
- Crawford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Stephens
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Maxeys
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Carlton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Tignall
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Bairdstown
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bairdstown is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bairdstown
- Tyrone
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tyrone is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyrone
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wise. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wise.
Newspapers Published in Wise ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wise.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wise, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wise.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Wise:
- Websites specific to Georgia
- Pages specific to Oglethorpe County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Clarke County
- Elbert County
- Franklin County
- Greene County
- Hancock County
- Lincoln County
- Madison County
- McDuffie County
- Morgan County
- Oconee County
- Taliaferro County
- Warren County
- Wilkes County
- Abbeville County
- McCormick County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Georgia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Wise, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wise) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |