Do you know of Phillips ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Phillips. 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 Phillips.
Our sources for Phillips (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 Phillips other than they indicate that Phillips would be found somewhere in Cocke County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1902.
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 Phillips ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Phillips.
There are three communities within Tennessee that are also named Phillips.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Phillips [Davidson County].
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Phillips [Hardin County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Phillips [Monroe County].
- Davidson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Etowah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Phillips [Etowah County].
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Phillips [Craighead County].
- California
- El Dorado County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Phillips [El Dorado County].
- Florida
- Duval 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 Florida community of Phillips [Duval County].
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Phillips [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Phillips [Madison County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Wapello County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Phillips [Wapello County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Phillips [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Houghton 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 Phillips [Houghton County].
- Saginaw 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 Phillips [Saginaw County].
- Montana
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Phillips [Phillips County].
- Nebraska
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Phillips [Hamilton County].
- Oklahoma
- Coal County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Phillips [Coal County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Phillips [Fayette County].
- Potter 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 Pennsylvania community of Phillips [Potter County].
- Tioga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Phillips [Tioga County].
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Hutchinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Phillips [Hutchinson County].
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Phillips [Upshur County].
- Washington 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 Texas community of Phillips [Washington County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Phillips [Davis County].
- Virginia
- Floyd 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 Virginia community of Phillips [Floyd County].
- Stafford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Phillips [Stafford County].
- Washington
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Phillips [Lewis County].
- West Virginia
- Logan 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 Phillips [Logan County].
- Raleigh 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 West Virginia community of Phillips [Raleigh County].
- Wisconsin
- Price County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Phillips [Price County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Phillips ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Phillips:
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 Phillips - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Cocke 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 Cocke County.
| Bison | |
| Broad | Mae |
| Meyeres | |
| Costner | |
| Crosby | Natural Bridge |
| Driskill | Paint Rock |
| Peanut | |
| English | Punkton |
| Givens | Rankin's Depot |
| Reedtown | |
| Help | |
| Sardis | |
| Lemon's Gap | Sutton |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Phillips 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/ |