Do you know of Leroy ???

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

We found mention of Leroy as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Shelby 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.

Communities Also Named Leroy ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Leroy.

Within Tennessee, the name Leroy is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Leroy [Washington County].
- Colorado
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Leroy [Logan County].
- Florida
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Leroy [Marion County].
- Indiana
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Leroy [Lake County].
- Kansas
  - Doniphan 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 Leroy [Doniphan County].
- Kentucky
  - Pulaski 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 Kentucky community of Leroy [Pulaski County].
- Louisiana
  - Vermilion Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Leroy [Vermilion Parish].
- Michigan
  - Ingham 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 Michigan community of Leroy [Ingham County].
  - Presque Isle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Leroy [Presque Isle County].
- Missouri
  - Lafayette 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 Leroy [Lafayette County].
- Montana
  - Blaine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Leroy [Blaine County].
- North Dakota
  - Pembina County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Leroy [Pembina County].
- Ohio
  - Medina 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 Ohio community of Leroy [Medina County].
- Oklahoma
  - Pawnee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Leroy [Pawnee County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bradford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Leroy [Bradford County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Leroy.
- Texas
  - McLennan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Leroy [McLennan County].
- West Virginia
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Leroy [Jackson County].
  - Kanawha 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 Leroy [Kanawha County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dodge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Leroy [Dodge County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leroy ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Shelby County ...

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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 ...

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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 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 Leroy 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.