Do you know of Pottsville ???

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

Our sources for Pottsville (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 Pottsville other than they indicate that Pottsville would be found somewhere in De Soto Parish, Louisiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1902.

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 Pottsville ...

We found nine communities that share the name Pottsville.

Within Louisiana, the name Pottsville is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Pope County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pottsville [Pope County].
  • Idaho
    • Shoshone County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Pottsville [Shoshone County].
  • Illinois
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pottsville [Union County].
  • Kentucky
    • Graves County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pottsville [Graves County].
    • Washington County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pottsville [Washington County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pottsville.
  • Pennsylvania
    • Schuylkill County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pottsville [Schuylkill County].
  • Tennessee
    • Maury County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pottsville [Maury County].
  • Texas
    • Hamilton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pottsville [Hamilton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pottsville ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  De Soto Parish ...

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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 De Soto Parish.