Do you know of Happy Valley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Happy Valley. 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 Happy Valley.
Our sources for Happy Valley (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 Happy Valley other than they indicate that Happy Valley would be found somewhere in Carter County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1900.
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 Happy Valley ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Happy Valley.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Happy Valley.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 29 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Happy Valley [Blount County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Happy Valley.
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Happy Valley.
- California
- Calaveras County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Happy Valley [Calaveras County].
- El Dorado County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Happy Valley [El Dorado County].
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Happy Valley [Los Angeles County].
- Shasta County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Happy Valley [Shasta County].
- Florida
- Escambia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Happy Valley [Escambia County].
- Georgia
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Happy Valley [Hall County].
- McDuffie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Happy Valley [McDuffie County].
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Happy Valley [Walker County].
- Hawaii
- Please visit our profile page for the Hawaii community of Happy Valley.
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Happy Valley [Carroll County].
- Missouri
- Harrison 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 Missouri community of Happy Valley [Harrison County].
- Montana
- Flathead 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 Montana community of Happy Valley [Flathead County].
- New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Happy Valley [Hillsborough County].
- New Mexico
- Eddy 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 New Mexico community of Happy Valley [Eddy County].
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Happy Valley [Oswego County].
- Rockland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Happy Valley [Rockland County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Happy Valley.
- North Carolina
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Happy Valley [Buncombe County].
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Happy Valley [Caldwell County].
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Happy Valley.
- Oregon
- Clackamas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Happy Valley [Clackamas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Happy Valley [Luzerne County].
- Texas
- Nacogdoches County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Happy Valley [Nacogdoches County].
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Happy Valley [Taylor County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Happy Valley [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Happy Valley [Campbell County].
- Washington
- Clallam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Happy Valley [Clallam County].
- Whatcom County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Happy Valley [Whatcom County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Happy Valley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Happy Valley:
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 Happy Valley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Carter 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 Carter 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 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 Happy Valley 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/ |