Do you know of Hughes ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hughes. 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 Hughes.
Our sources for Hughes (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 Hughes other than they indicate that Hughes would be found somewhere in Murray County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1909.
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 Hughes ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Hughes.
There is one other community in Georgia which is also named Hughes.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Hughes.
- Arkansas
- Crittenden 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 Hughes [Crittenden County].
- Saint Francis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hughes [Saint Francis County].
- California
- Illinois
- Edgar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hughes [Edgar County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Bossier Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hughes [Bossier Parish].
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Avery County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hughes [Avery County].
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hughes [Butler County].
- Oklahoma
- Latimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hughes [Latimer County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hughes.
- South Carolina
- Bamberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Hughes [Bamberg County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hughes [Hamilton County].
- Macon 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 Hughes [Macon County].
- Texas
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hughes [Cass County].
- Galveston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hughes [Galveston County].
- Irion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hughes [Irion County].
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hughes [Newton County].
- Tom Green County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hughes [Tom Green County].
- Victoria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hughes [Victoria County].
- West Virginia
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hughes ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hughes:
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 Hughes - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)
Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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 | |
| Amzi | Holly Creek |
| Huff | |
| Chaseville | |
| Connesauga | Loughridge |
| Dunn Store | Pleasant Valley |
| Dunn | Prune |
| Enoch | Ramsey |
| Fairy | Woodlawn |
| Fashion |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Hughes 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/ |