Do you know of Mossville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1920.

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 Mossville ...

We found four communities that share the name Mossville.

Within Texas, the name Mossville is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Newton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mossville [Newton County].
  • Illinois
    • Peoria County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Mossville [Peoria County].
  • Louisiana
    • Calcasieu Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Mossville [Calcasieu Parish].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Luzerne County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mossville [Luzerne County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mossville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Cooke 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 Cooke County.