Welcome to Cross Roads ...
So far, we found very little information about Cross Roads. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Cross Roads to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Cross Roads - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Cross Roads, please Contact Us.
Cross Roads was located While we don't have the exact location of Cross Roads , we believe that it would have been located within present day Navarro County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Cross Roads, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877. A typical abbreviation for Cross Roads: Cross Rds. Time Zone: The area where Cross Roads was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time While we believe that this Cross Roads is located in Navarro County, we know of another 8 Texas communities named Cross Roads. Those communities are located in the following counties: Cherokee, Comanche, Denton, Fisher, Henderson, Leon, Madison and Rusk County. Beyond Texas, there are 57 communities that are also named Cross Roads - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (10), California, Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana (2), Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi (3), Missouri (5), New Brunswick (2), New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, South Carolina (2), Tennessee (7) and Virginia (4). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cross Roads. We originally found mention of Cross Roads 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 Cross Roads was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> For more details, see References and Mentions for Cross Roads.
The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/Communities Also Named Cross Roads ...
Adding Cross Roads to Our Gazetteer ...
From that list, the Cross Roads post office opened in 1877.
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Footnotes ...
<1> We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cross Roads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. <2> If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Navarro, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. <3> A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/