Welcome to Whitney ...So far, we found very little information about Whitney. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Whitney to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Whitney, please Contact Us. Whitney would have been located within present day Fayette County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Whitney, you might consider that their post office opened in 1908. While the community is gone, the present day location for Whitney is 930 feet [283 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: The area where Whitney was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Codes where Whitney was located: 304 & 681<4> Communities Also Named Whitney ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 25 communities that are also named Whitney - they are located in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho (2), Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas (2), Washington and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Whitney. Communities near Whitney ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Whitney.
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 Whitney. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Whitney. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Whitney. 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 Whitney. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Whitney. See our Newspapers Page for Whitney. Adding Whitney to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Whitney 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 (so far) for Whitney was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Whitney. Footnotes ...
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