Do you know of Dunn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dunn. 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 Dunn.
Our sources for Dunn (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 Dunn other than they indicate that Dunn would be found somewhere in Murray County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1906.
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 Dunn ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Dunn.
There are two communities within Georgia that are also named Dunn.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dunn [Pike County].
- Arkansas
- Cross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dunn [Cross County].
- Monroe 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 Dunn [Monroe County].
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dunn [Randolph County].
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dunn [San Bernardino County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dunn [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Moultrie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dunn [Moultrie County].
- Indiana
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Dunn [Benton County].
- Louisiana
- Richland Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Dunn [Richland Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Dunn.
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Harnett County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dunn [Harnett County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dunn [Lawrence County].
- Texas
- Scurry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dunn [Scurry County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dunn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dunn:
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 Dunn - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Murray 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 Murray County.
| Adair | Holly Creek |
| Amzi | Huff |
| Hughes | |
| Chaseville | |
| Connesauga | Loughridge |
| Dunn Store | Pleasant Valley |
| Prune | |
| Enoch | |
| Ramsey | |
| Fairy | |
| Fashion | Woodlawn |
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 Dunn 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/ |