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Do you know of Big Mountain ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Mountain. 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 Big Mountain. Our sources for Big Mountain (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 Big Mountain other than they indicate that Big Mountain would be found somewhere in Morgan County, Tennessee. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1894. 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 Big Mountain ...We found four communities that share the name Big Mountain. Within Tennessee, the name Big Mountain is unique. Beyond Tennessee, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Mountain ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Big Mountain: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Big Mountain - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
The FIPS database contains an entry for Big Mountain. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 47/05780 (Place Name: Big Mountain) County: Morgan (FIPS State/County: 47/129) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Big Mountain) 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County.
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