Do you know of Wilsons ???

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

We found mention of Wilsons as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lewis County, West Virginia.

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.

Communities Also Named Wilsons ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Wilsons.

Within West Virginia, the name Wilsons is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Etowah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wilsons [Etowah County].
- Connecticut
  - Windham 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 Connecticut community of Wilsons [Windham County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Wilsons [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Hancock 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 Wilsons [Hancock County].
- Kansas
  - Pottawatomie 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 Kansas community of Wilsons [Pottawatomie County].
- Michigan
  - Jackson 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 Michigan community of Wilsons [Jackson County].
- New Jersey
  - Burlington 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 New Jersey community of Wilsons [Burlington County].
- South Carolina
  - Clarendon 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 South Carolina community of Wilsons [Clarendon County].
  - Lexington County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wilsons [Lexington County].
- Tennessee
  - Anderson 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 Tennessee community of Wilsons [Anderson County].
  - Monroe County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wilsons [Monroe County].
- Virginia
  - Dinwiddie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wilsons [Dinwiddie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilsons ...

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

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

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

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)

More Orphans in Lewis 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 Lewis County.

Browns	Kemper
	Kemperville
Collins Settlement
Confluence	Midway

Dovener	Nicoles

Edmiston	Seymour
Etna	Smith's
	Stalnaker
Fisher's Summit
Freemans Creek	Turner

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Wilsons 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.