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Do you know of Currie ???

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

Our sources for Currie (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 Currie other than they indicate that Currie would be found somewhere in Travis County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1888.

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 Currie ...

We found ten communities that share the name Currie.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Currie.

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

  • Communities Located In Texas ...
    • Navarro County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Currie [Navarro County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Minnesota
      • Murray County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Currie [Murray County].
    • Mississippi
      • Forrest County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Currie [Forrest County].
      • Jones County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Currie [Jones County].
      • Smith 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 Mississippi community of Currie [Smith County].
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Currie [Elko County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Currie.
    • North Carolina
      • Pender County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Currie [Pender County].
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Currie.
    • Tennessee
      • Gibson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Currie [Gibson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Currie ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Travis 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 Travis County.

Allandale 
 Lakeland Hills
Balcones VillageLakeland Park
Butter Krust 
 Mansfield Dam
CapitolMerrilltown
CharlesMilby
 Mud
Duval 
 North Austin
East AustinNorth Oaks
 Northeast
FiskvilleNorthwest
Fromme 
 Perdenales
Gregg 
 Saint Elmo
Hancock'sSaunders
Heritage HillsSneed
HickmuntownSouth Austin
Hooper 
HornsbyTravis Peak
  
KimbroWatters
KitchenvilleWest Austin
Kouns 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Currie 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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