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Welcome to Mount Carmel ...So far, we found very little information about Mount Carmel. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Mount Carmel to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mount Carmel, please Contact Us. Mount Carmel would have been located within present day Wilson County<2>. The location of Mount Carmel has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Carmel, you might consider that their post office opened in 1844. A typical abbreviation for Mount Carmel: Mt. Carmel While the community is gone, the present day location for Mount Carmel is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Mount Carmel was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Mount Carmel still existed, it would have been in the (615) area code. Communities Also Named Mount Carmel ...While we believe that this Mount Carmel is located in Wilson County, we know of another 6 Tennessee communities named Mount Carmel. Those communities are located in the following counties: Decatur, Franklin, Greene, Hawkins, Tipton and Washington County. Beyond Tennessee, there are 57 communities that are also named Mount Carmel - they are located in Alabama (5), Arkansas (2), Connecticut, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (2), Louisiana, Maryland (4), Mississippi (2), Missouri, New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina (2), North Dakota, Ohio (3), Ontario (6), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Texas (2), Utah, Virginia (2) and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mount Carmel. Communities near Mount Carmel ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mount Carmel.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mount Carmel. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mount Carmel. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mount Carmel. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mount Carmel. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Carmel. See our Newspapers Page for Mount Carmel. Adding Mount Carmel to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Mount Carmel in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mount Carmel was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Mount Carmel in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851). For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Carmel. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Wilson County: www.wilsoncountytn.com/ The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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