Do you know of Saints Rest ???

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

Our sources for Saints Rest (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 Saints Rest other than they indicate that Saints Rest would be found somewhere in Sunflower County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1906.

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 Saints Rest ...

We found three communities that share the name Saints Rest.

Within Mississippi, the name Saints Rest is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Montana
    • Rosebud County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Saints Rest [Rosebud County].
  • Nevada
    • Ormsby County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saints Rest [Ormsby County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Saints Rest.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saints Rest ...

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

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 Saints Rest - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Saints Rest.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 28/64720   (Place Name: Saints Rest)

County: Sunflower     (FIPS State/County: 28/133)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Saints Rest) 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  Sunflower County ...

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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 Sunflower County.