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Do you know of Gagne ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1891.

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 Gagne ...

We found one communities that share the name Gagne.

Within Texas, the name Gagne is unique.

Beyond Texas, there is another community also named Gagne in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Quebec
      • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Gagne.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gagne ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Gagne - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Shelby 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 Shelby County.

Aken 
 Pauls Store
Buena Vista 
 Rainsville
CleonRamah
Clever Creek 
 Sabine River
Good HopeSholar
  
HalbertThurman
HansonToomey
  
JakinWhite Cottage
 Willaluce
LemitWillow Grove
 Word
New ProspectWylma

Footnotes ...

<1>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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