Do you know of Coats ???

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

Our sources for Coats (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 Coats other than they indicate that Coats would be found somewhere in Sharp County, Arkansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1909.

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 Coats ...

We found five communities that share the name Coats.

Within Arkansas, the name Coats is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Idaho
    • Minidoka County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Coats [Minidoka County].
  • Kansas
    • Pratt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Coats [Pratt County].
  • Mississippi
    • Simpson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Coats [Simpson County].
  • North Carolina
    • Harnett County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Coats [Harnett County].
  • Ohio
    • Monroe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Coats [Monroe County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Coats ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Sharp 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 Sharp County.