Do you know of Hurricane ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hurricane. 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 Hurricane.
Our sources for Hurricane (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 Hurricane other than they indicate that Hurricane would be found somewhere in Haywood County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1916.
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 Hurricane ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Hurricane.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Hurricane.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hurricane [Madison County].
- Madison County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Saline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hurricane [Saline County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hurricane [Greene County].
- Montgomery 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 Illinois community of Hurricane [Montgomery County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hurricane [Pike County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hurricane [Claiborne Parish].
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hurricane [Attala County].
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hurricane [Pontotoc County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hurricane [Warren County].
- Missouri
- Bollinger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hurricane [Bollinger County].
- Lincoln 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 Missouri community of Hurricane [Lincoln County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hurricane [Washington County].
- New York
- Herkimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hurricane [Herkimer County].
- Tennessee
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hurricane [Jackson County].
- Maury 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 Tennessee community of Hurricane [Maury County].
- Wilson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hurricane [Wilson County].
- Utah
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Hurricane [Washington County].
- Virginia
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hurricane [Wise County].
- West Virginia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hurricane [Putnam County].
- Wisconsin
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Hurricane [Grant County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hurricane ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hurricane:
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 Hurricane - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Haywood 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 Haywood County.
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 Hurricane 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/ |