Do you know of Pershing ???

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

We found mention of Pershing as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wayne County, Indiana.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1917.

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 Pershing ...

We found seven communities that share the name Pershing.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Pershing.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Located In Indiana ...
  • Fulton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pershing [Fulton County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pershing [Franklin County].
  • Iowa
    • Marion County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pershing [Marion County].
  • Missouri
    • Gasconade County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pershing [Gasconade County].
  • Montana
    • Carter County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Pershing [Carter County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Osage County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Pershing [Osage County].
  • Texas
    • Travis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pershing [Travis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pershing ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Pershing.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 18/59292   (Place Name: Pershing (corporate name East Germantown))

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

Class: C4

More Orphans in  Wayne 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 Wayne County.