Do you know of Republic ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Republic. 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 Republic.
Our sources for Republic (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 Republic other than they indicate that Republic would be found somewhere in Yadkin County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 and closed in 1904.
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 Republic ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Republic.
Within North Carolina, the name Republic is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Republic [Jefferson County].
- Iowa
- Chickasaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Republic [Chickasaw County].
- Kansas
- Republic County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Republic [Republic County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Republic [Pike County].
- Michigan
- Marquette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Republic [Marquette County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Republic [Greene County].
- Montana
- Musselshell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Republic [Musselshell County].
- New York
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Seneca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Republic [Seneca County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Republic [Fayette County].
- Texas
- Llano County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Republic [Llano County].
- Washington
- Ferry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Republic [Ferry County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Republic [Kanawha County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Republic ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Republic:
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 Republic - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Yadkin 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 Yadkin 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Republic 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/ |