Do you know of Pine Springs ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pine Springs. 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 Pine Springs.
Our sources for Pine Springs (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 Pine Springs other than they indicate that Pine Springs would be found somewhere in Rowan County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1895.
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 Pine Springs ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Pine Springs.
There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Pine Springs.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pine Springs [Grayson County].
- Grayson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pine Springs [Lamar County].
- Arizona
- Apache County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Pine Springs [Apache County].
- Minnesota
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Pine Springs [Washington County].
- Mississippi
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Pine Springs [Lauderdale County].
- New Mexico
- Torrance County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Pine Springs [Torrance County].
- Oklahoma
- Atoka 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 Oklahoma community of Pine Springs [Atoka County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pine Springs.
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pine Springs [Knox County].
- Texas
- Bowie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pine Springs [Bowie County].
- Culberson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pine Springs [Culberson County].
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pine Springs [Smith County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pine Springs ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pine Springs:
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 Pine Springs - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Rowan 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 Rowan County.
| Bailey | Lacy |
| Cooper's | Mizpah |
| Crix | Munson |
| Dickson | Pekin |
| Eadston | Rockville |
| Egypt | Rodbourn |
| Farmer | Vale |
| Fraley | |
| Freestone | Wagner |
| Woodland |
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 Pine Springs 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/ |