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Do you know of Tabor ???

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

Our sources for Tabor (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 Tabor other than they indicate that Tabor would be found somewhere in Meigs County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1905.

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 Tabor ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Tabor.

There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Tabor.

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

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Cumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Tabor [Cumberland County].
    • Roane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Tabor [Roane County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Etowah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Tabor [Etowah County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Tabor.
    • Colorado
      • Boulder County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Tabor [Boulder County].
    • Illinois
      • De Witt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Tabor [De Witt County].
    • Indiana
      • Delaware 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 Indiana community of Tabor [Delaware County].
    • Iowa
      • Fremont County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Tabor [Fremont County].
    • Kansas
      • Clay 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 Tabor [Clay County].
      • Republic County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Tabor [Republic County].
    • Minnesota
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Tabor [Polk County].
    • New Jersey
      • Morris County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Tabor [Morris County].
    • North Carolina
      • Robeson 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 North Carolina community of Tabor [Robeson County].
    • Ohio
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Tabor [Carroll County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Creek County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Tabor [Creek County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Tabor.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Tabor [Philadelphia County].
    • South Carolina
      • Oconee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Tabor [Oconee County].
    • South Dakota
      • Bon Homme County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Tabor [Bon Homme County].
    • Texas
      • Brazos County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Tabor [Brazos County].
    • Virginia
      • 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 Virginia community of Tabor [Washington County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Racine County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Tabor [Racine County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tabor ...

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

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 Tabor - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Meigs 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 Meigs County.

ArkHester Mills
  
BirchwoodKnott
Bonham 
 Maloney
CottonportMeigs
  
GeorgetownPinhook Landing
  

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 Tabor 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/









 

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