Do you know of Floyd ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Floyd. 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 Floyd.
Our sources for Floyd (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 Floyd other than they indicate that Floyd would be found somewhere in Benton County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1907.
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 Floyd ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Floyd.
There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Floyd.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Floyd [Washington County].
- Washington County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Elmore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Floyd [Elmore County].
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Floyd [White County].
- California
- Fresno County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Floyd [Fresno County].
- Georgia
- Cobb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Floyd [Cobb County].
- Iowa
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Floyd [Floyd County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Floyd [Pulaski County].
- Louisiana
- West Carroll Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Floyd [West Carroll Parish].
- Maryland
- Garrett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Floyd [Garrett County].
- Michigan
- Isabella 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 Michigan community of Floyd [Isabella County].
- Midland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Floyd [Midland County].
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Floyd [Saint Clair County].
- Missouri
- New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Floyd [Roosevelt County].
- New York
- Oneida County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Floyd [Oneida County].
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Darlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Floyd [Darlington County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Floyd [Floyd County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Floyd ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Floyd:
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 Floyd - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Floyd.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 28/25140 (Place Name: Floyd)
County: Benton (FIPS State/County: 28/009)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Floyd) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Benton 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 Benton County.
| Austerlitz | Pegram |
| Dewitt | Salem |
| Shawnee | |
| Graves | Spight |
| Laird | Tacaleeche |
| Lonoke | Tacaleechie |
| Tippah | |
| Maxwell | Todd |
| Oakforest | Yellow Rabbitt |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Floyd 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/ |