Do you know of Clear Springs ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clear Springs. 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 Clear Springs.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Clear Springs, so we are uncertain whether Clear Springs is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Clear Springs would be found somewhere in Polk County, Florida.
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 Clear Springs ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Clear Springs.
There are two communities within Florida that are also named Clear Springs.
Beyond Florida, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Florida ...
- Okaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Clear Springs [Okaloosa County].
- Walton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Clear Springs [Walton County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clear Springs [Blount County].
- Etowah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clear Springs [Etowah County].
- Talladega County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clear Springs [Talladega County].
- Kentucky
- Graves County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clear Springs [Graves County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Clear Springs.
- Mississippi
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Clear Springs [Smith County].
- Missouri
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clear Springs [Texas County].
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clear Springs [York County].
- South Carolina
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Clear Springs [Richland County].
- Tennessee
- Grainger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clear Springs [Grainger County].
- Greene 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 Clear Springs [Greene County].
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clear Springs [Knox County].
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clear Springs [McMinn County].
- Texas
- Guadalupe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Springs [Guadalupe County].
- Nacogdoches County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Springs [Nacogdoches County].
More Orphans in Polk 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 Polk County.
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 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 Clear Springs 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. |