Do you know of Graves ???

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

Our sources for Graves (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Graves other than they indicate that Graves would be found somewhere in Benton County, Mississippi.

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 Graves ...

We found seven communities that share the name Graves.

There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Graves.

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

Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Graves [Lee County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - 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 British Columbia community of Graves.
- Georgia
  - Randolph 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 Georgia community of Graves [Randolph County].
  - Terrell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Graves [Terrell County].
- Kansas
  - Cloud 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 Kansas community of Graves [Cloud County].
- South Carolina
  - Georgetown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Graves [Georgetown County].
- Virginia
  - Loudoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Graves [Loudoun County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Graves ...

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

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

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

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
Floyd	Spight

Laird	Tacaleeche
Lonoke	Tacaleechie
	Tippah
Maxwell	Todd

Oakforest	Yellow Rabbitt

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Graves 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.