Do you know of Nichols ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Nichols. 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 Nichols.
Our sources for Nichols (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 Nichols other than they indicate that Nichols would be found somewhere in Blount County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1903.
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 Nichols ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Nichols.
Within Tennessee, the name Nichols is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Nichols [Bibb County].
- Arkansas
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Nichols.
- California
- Contra Costa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Nichols [Contra Costa County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Nichols [Fairfield County].
- Florida
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Nichols [Polk County].
- Iowa
- Muscatine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Nichols [Muscatine County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Bullitt 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 Nichols [Bullitt County].
- Hickman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Nichols [Hickman County].
- Louisiana
- Caddo Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Nichols [Caddo Parish].
- Maryland
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Nichols [Caroline County].
- Michigan
- Antrim 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 Nichols [Antrim County].
- Calhoun County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Nichols [Calhoun County].
- Keweenaw County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Nichols [Keweenaw County].
- Minnesota
- Aitkin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Nichols [Aitkin County].
- Mississippi
- Leflore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Nichols [Leflore County].
- Missouri
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Nichols [Greene County].
- Montana
- Rosebud County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Nichols [Rosebud County].
- Nebraska
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Nichols [Lincoln County].
- New York
- Oklahoma
- Osage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Nichols [Osage County].
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Nichols [Marion County].
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Outagamie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Nichols [Outagamie County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nichols ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Nichols:
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 Nichols - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Blount 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 Blount 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 Nichols 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/ |