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Do you know of Big Sandy ???

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

Our sources for Big Sandy (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 Big Sandy other than they indicate that Big Sandy would be found somewhere in Twiggs County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1879 and closed  in 1903.

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.

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.

Communities Also Named Big Sandy ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Big Sandy.

Within Georgia, the name Big Sandy is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Boyd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Big Sandy [Boyd County].
      • Lawrence 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 Kentucky community of Big Sandy [Lawrence County].
    • Montana
      • Chouteau County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Big Sandy [Chouteau County].
    • Nebraska
      • Saunders 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 Nebraska community of Big Sandy [Saunders County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Big Sandy.
    • Tennessee
      • Benton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Sandy [Benton County].
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Sandy [Washington County].
    • Texas
      • Upshur County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Big Sandy [Upshur County].
    • West Virginia
      • McDowell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Big Sandy [McDowell County].
      • Wayne 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 West Virginia community of Big Sandy [Wayne County].
    • Wyoming
      • Sublette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Big Sandy [Sublette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Sandy ...

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

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

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

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

Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)

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

More Orphans in  Twiggs 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 Twiggs County.

Adams Park 
AntiochElmwood
Asa 
 Gallimore
Bead 
BernitaJefffersonville
Bonds 
BullardsMontrose
Burns 
 Pikes Peak
Chapel Hill 
Cool SpringsSabine
 Solomon
Delzel 
Denson's MillTwiggsville

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Big Sandy 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.
<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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