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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Coxs Mills. 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 Coxs Mills.

Our sources for Coxs Mills (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 Coxs Mills other than they indicate that Coxs Mills would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Indiana.

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 Coxs Mills ...

We found one communities that share the name Coxs Mills.

Within Indiana, the name Coxs Mills is unique.

Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named Coxs Mills in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • West Virginia
    • Gilmer County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Coxs Mills [Gilmer County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Coxs Mills ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Coxs Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Coxs Mills.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 18/15544   (Place Name: Coxs Mills)

County: Wayne     (FIPS State/County: 18/177)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Wayne County ...

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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 Wayne County.