Do you know of Bond ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bond. 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 Bond.
Our sources for Bond (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 Bond other than they indicate that Bond would be found somewhere in Shelby County, Tennessee.
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 Bond ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Bond.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Bond.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Hickman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bond [Hickman County].
- Hickman County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bond [Sumter County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Bond.
- Colorado
- Eagle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Bond [Eagle County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bond [Madison County].
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bond [Jackson County].
- Louisiana
- Allen Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bond [Allen Parish].
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Montana
- Beaverhead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Bond [Beaverhead County].
- Ohio
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bond [Guernsey County].
- Oklahoma
- Blaine 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 Oklahoma community of Bond [Blaine County].
- Pittsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bond [Pittsburg County].
- Texas
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bond ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bond:
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 Bond - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Shelby 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 Shelby 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 Bond 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/ |