Do you know of Mountain Dale ???

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

We found mention of Mountain Dale as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Unicoi County, Tennessee.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1939 and closed  in 1939.

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 Mountain Dale ...

We found four communities that share the name Mountain Dale.

Within Tennessee, the name Mountain Dale is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Webster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mountain Dale [Webster County].
  • New York
    • Sullivan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mountain Dale [Sullivan County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Dauphin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mountain Dale [Dauphin County].
  • West Virginia
    • Preston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mountain Dale [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mountain Dale ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Mountain Dale.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 47/50420   (Place Name: Mountain Dale)

County: Unicoi     (FIPS State/County: 47/171)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Mountain Dale) 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  Unicoi 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 Unicoi County.