Do you know of Wilkes ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wilkes. 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 Wilkes.<1>

We found mention of Wilkes as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1793 and closed in 1819.

Communities Also Named Wilkes ...

We found three communities that share the name Wilkes.

Within North Carolina, the name Wilkes is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wilkes [Jefferson County].
- Tennessee
  - Williamson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wilkes [Williamson County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Wilkes [Salt Lake County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilkes ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General

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.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/