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Welcome to Milledgeville ...

Milledgeville is located in Lincoln County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Milledgeville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1844.

Milledgeville is 1,040 feet [317 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Milledgeville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Milledgeville and travel south, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Code for Milledgeville: 606

Communities Also Named Milledgeville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 9 communities that are also named Milledgeville - they are located in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Milledgeville.

Communities near Milledgeville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Milledgeville.

  • Danville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Harrodsburg
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Lancaster
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Stanford
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Junction City
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Liberty
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Burgin
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Crab Orchard
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Perryville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Hustonville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)

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 Milledgeville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Milledgeville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Milledgeville. 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 Milledgeville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Milledgeville. See our Newspapers Page for Milledgeville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Milledgeville ...

Looking for more information about Milledgeville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Milledgeville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Milledgeville.

Adding Milledgeville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Milledgeville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Milledgeville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Milledgeville post office opened in 1844. The Milledgeville post office closed in 1913.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Milledgeville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Lincoln, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Milledgeville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/