Do you know of Wildcat ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wildcat. 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 Wildcat.
Our sources for Wildcat (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 Wildcat other than they indicate that Wildcat would be found somewhere in Henderson County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1885 and closed in 1905.
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 Wildcat ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Wildcat.
Within Texas, the name Wildcat is unique.
Beyond Texas, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Crittenden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wildcat [Crittenden County].
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Wildcat [Weld County].
- Louisiana
- Tensas Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Wildcat [Tensas Parish].
- New Mexico
- McKinley County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Wildcat [McKinley County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Wildcat.
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wildcat [Clarion County].
- South Carolina
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wildcat [Union County].
- Utah
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Wildcat [Carbon County].
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Wildcat [Campbell County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wildcat ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wildcat:
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 Wildcat - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Henderson 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 Henderson County.
| Alfred | |
| Ash | Goshen |
| Greeson | |
| Blue Water Key | |
| Kenelm | |
| Cardinal | |
| Catfish | Mance |
| Eustace - Malakoff | Pleasant Ridge |
| Forest Grove | Smitty |
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 Wildcat 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/ |