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Do you know of Whittington ???

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

Our sources for Whittington (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 Whittington other than they indicate that Whittington would be found somewhere in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1916.

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 Whittington ...

We found nine communities that share the name Whittington.

Within North Carolina, the name Whittington is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Garland 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 Arkansas community of Whittington [Garland County].
      • Hot Spring County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Whittington [Hot Spring County].
    • Georgia
      • Worth 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 Georgia community of Whittington [Worth County].
    • Illinois
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Whittington [Franklin County].
    • Indiana
      • Bartholomew 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 Indiana community of Whittington [Bartholomew County].
    • Louisiana
      • Rapides Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Whittington [Rapides Parish].
      • Washington Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Whittington [Washington Parish].
    • Ohio
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Whittington [Franklin County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Whittington.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whittington ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Whittington - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Wilkes 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 Wilkes County.

AbhersLucille
  
BowlesMyers
Briercreek 
Brushy MountainOzark
Burcham 
ByrdParks
 Patriot
ChampionPoor's Knob
ClinePores Knob
CongoProffit
Cowles 
 Quarry
Dyer 
 Radical
EdnaReddies River
Elder BranchRoaring Gap
 Round Mountain
Fairplain 
FeltsShoe
 Stanton
GlassStony Hill
GoshenStraw
 Summit
Hix 
 Viands
Ink 
IraWest Elkin
 Wiles
Lewis Forks 
LucileYellow Hill

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 Whittington 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/









 

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