Do you know of Smith's Ferry ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smith's Ferry. 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 Smith's Ferry.

Our sources for Smith's Ferry (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Smith's Ferry other than they indicate that Smith's Ferry would be found somewhere in Tyler County, Texas.

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 Smith's Ferry ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Smith's Ferry.

Within Texas, the name Smith's Ferry is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Coosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Smith's Ferry [Coosa County].
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Smith's Ferry [Greene County].
- Arkansas
  - Garland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Smith's Ferry [Garland County].
- California
  - Fresno County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Smith's Ferry [Fresno County].
- Idaho
  - Valley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Smith's Ferry [Valley County].
- Kansas
  - Shawnee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Smith's Ferry [Shawnee County].
- Massachusetts
  - Hampden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Smith's Ferry [Hampden County].
  - Hampshire 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 Massachusetts community of Smith's Ferry [Hampshire County].
- Mississippi
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Smith's Ferry [Warren County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Beaver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Smith's Ferry [Beaver County].
- South Carolina
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Smith's Ferry [Union County].
- Virginia
  - Southampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Smith's Ferry [Southampton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Smith's Ferry ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Tyler 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 Tyler County.

Billums	Grimes

Carrolls	Jeans

Dies	Pedigo
Dogwood	Pollitt

Emilee	Seneca
	Skidway
Flemmings	Summit

Footnotes ...

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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 Smith's Ferry 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.