Welcome to Giles ...

So far, we found very little information about Giles. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Giles to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Giles - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Giles, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Giles , we believe that it would have been located within present day Cherry County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Giles, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1895.

Giles would have been located in the (402) and (531)<3> area codes.

Communities Also Named Giles ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 7 communities that are also named Giles - they are located in Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

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

Adding Giles to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Giles in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Giles was on a map titled Map of Nebraska (from Rand McNally, 1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Giles.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Cherry County: www.co.cherry.ne.us/

The official website for State of Nebraska: www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Giles, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Cherry, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	Area code (531) is an overlay for area code (402).