Do you know of Cave ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cave. 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 Cave.

Our sources for Cave (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 Cave other than they indicate that Cave would be found somewhere in White County, Tennessee.

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 Cave ...

We found nine communities that share the name Cave.

Within Tennessee, the name Cave is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cave [Benton County].
- Georgia
  - Bartow 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 Cave [Bartow County].
- Kansas
  - Gray 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 Cave [Gray County].
  - Stevens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cave [Stevens County].
- Missouri
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cave [Lincoln County].
- Nevada
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Cave [Lincoln County].
- South Carolina
  - Allendale 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 South Carolina community of Cave [Allendale County].
- Virginia
  - Augusta 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 Virginia community of Cave [Augusta County].
- West Virginia
  - Pendleton 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 West Virginia community of Cave [Pendleton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cave ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cave:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cave - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

The FIPS database contains an entry for Cave.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 47/11600 (Place Name: Cave)

County: White (FIPS State/County: 47/185)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Cave) 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 White 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 White County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Cave 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.