Do you know of Saint Thomas ???

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

Our sources for Saint Thomas (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 Saint Thomas other than they indicate that Saint Thomas would be found somewhere in Pasco County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1885 and closed in 1907.

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 Saint Thomas ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Saint Thomas.

Within Florida, the name Saint Thomas is unique.

Beyond Florida, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Crittenden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Saint Thomas [Crittenden County].
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Saint Thomas [Mississippi County].
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Saint Thomas [Pulaski County].
- Colorado
  - Las Animas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Saint Thomas [Las Animas County].
- Illinois
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Thomas [Madison County].
- Indiana
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Thomas [Knox County].
- Louisiana
  - Assumption Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Saint Thomas [Assumption Parish].
- Minnesota
  - Le Sueur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saint Thomas [Le Sueur County].
- Missouri
  - Cole County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint Thomas [Cole County].
- Nevada
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saint Thomas [Clark County].
  - Lincoln 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 Nevada community of Saint Thomas [Lincoln County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Saint Thomas.
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Saint Thomas.
- North Dakota
  - Pembina County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Saint Thomas [Pembina County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Thomas.
- Pennsylvania
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Thomas [Franklin County].
- Quebec
  - 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 Quebec community of Saint Thomas.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Thomas ...

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

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 Saint Thomas - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Pasco 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 Pasco 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 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 Saint Thomas 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/