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Do you know of Wimsatt ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1907 and closed  in 1910.

Communities Also Named Wimsatt ...

We found one communities that share the name Wimsatt.

Within North Carolina, the name Wimsatt is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Wimsatt in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New Mexico
      • Otero County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Wimsatt [Otero County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wimsatt ...

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

More Orphans in  Jones 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 Jones County.

Bonus 
 Hargetts Store
Canary 
CaswellOlive Crossroads
  
Elm GroveTharon
 Tuckahoe
Fowle 
FoysWhitford

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>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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