Do you know of Sugar Loaf ???

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

Our sources for Sugar Loaf (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 Sugar Loaf other than they indicate that Sugar Loaf would be found somewhere in Sebastian County, Arkansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1847 and closed in 1902.

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 Sugar Loaf ...

We found ten communities that share the name Sugar Loaf.

There is one other community in Arkansas which is also named Sugar Loaf.

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

Communities Located In Arkansas ...
- Boone 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 Arkansas community of Sugar Loaf [Boone County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Idaho
  - Jerome County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Sugar Loaf [Jerome County].
- Illinois
  - Saint Clair 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 Illinois community of Sugar Loaf [Saint Clair County].
- Maryland
  - Frederick 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 Maryland community of Sugar Loaf [Frederick County].
- Michigan
  - Marquette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sugar Loaf [Marquette County].
- New York
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sugar Loaf [Orange County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sugar Loaf.
- Pennsylvania
  - Columbia 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 Pennsylvania community of Sugar Loaf [Columbia County].
- Texas
  - Coryell 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 Texas community of Sugar Loaf [Coryell County].
- Virginia
  - Roanoke 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 Virginia community of Sugar Loaf [Roanoke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sugar Loaf ...

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

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 Sugar Loaf - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

William Bradley Map (1889)
Published by William M. Bradley and Brothers

More Orphans in Sebastian 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 Sebastian County.

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 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 Sugar Loaf 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/