Do you know of Wishart ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1892.

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 Wishart ...

We found three communities that share the name Wishart.

Within Georgia, the name Wishart is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Polk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wishart [Polk County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Wishart.
  • Virginia
    • Accomack County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wishart [Accomack County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wishart ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wishart - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Cities, Towns and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962
Written by: Hemperly, Marion R.
Published by the Southern Historical Press, 1980
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Wilcox 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 Wilcox County.