Do you know of Montezuma ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Montezuma. 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 Montezuma.
Our sources for Montezuma (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 Montezuma other than they indicate that Montezuma would be found somewhere in Mitchell County, North Carolina.
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 Montezuma ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Montezuma.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Montezuma.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Avery County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Montezuma [Avery County].
- Avery County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Montezuma [Covington County].
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Montezuma [Maricopa County].
- California
- Colorado
- Summit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Montezuma [Summit County].
- Georgia
- Chatham 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 Montezuma [Chatham County].
- Macon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Montezuma [Macon County].
- Illinois
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Montezuma [Pike County].
- Indiana
- Parke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Montezuma [Parke County].
- Vermillion 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 Indiana community of Montezuma [Vermillion County].
- Iowa
- Poweshiek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Montezuma [Poweshiek County].
- Kansas
- Finney 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 Montezuma [Finney County].
- Gray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Montezuma [Gray County].
- Logan County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Montezuma [Logan County].
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- San Miguel County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Montezuma [San Miguel County].
- Sandoval County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Montezuma [Sandoval County].
- Socorro County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Montezuma [Socorro County].
- New York
- Cayuga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Montezuma [Cayuga County].
- Ohio
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Montezuma [Mercer County].
- Tennessee
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Montezuma [Chester County].
- Virginia
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Montezuma [Rockingham County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Montezuma ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Montezuma:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Montezuma - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County.
| Brighton | Lineback |
| Brummett | Linville Cove |
| Brummett's Creek | Linville |
| Loggy | |
| Cranberry | |
| Magnetic City | |
| Elk Park | Mica |
| Elsie | |
| Old Fields | |
| Forbes | |
| Frank | Plumtree |
| Glen | Senia |
| Spear | |
| Hale | |
| Hollow Poplar | Trout |
| Ingals | Wilder's |
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 Montezuma 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. |