Do you know of Jones Mill ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Jones Mill. 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 Jones Mill.
Our sources for Jones Mill (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 Jones Mill other than they indicate that Jones Mill would be found somewhere in Lafayette County, Arkansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1894.
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 Jones Mill ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Jones Mill.
There is one other community in Arkansas which is also named Jones Mill.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Arkansas ...
- Hot Spring 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 Arkansas community of Jones Mill [Hot Spring County].
- Hot Spring County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Chambers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Jones Mill [Chambers County].
- Georgia
- Fannin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Jones Mill [Fannin County].
- Gilmer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Jones Mill [Gilmer County].
- Kentucky
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jones Mill [Clinton County].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Jones Mill [Aroostook County].
- Mississippi
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Jones Mill [Harrison County].
- New Jersey
- Burlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Jones Mill [Burlington County].
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Jones Mill [Cumberland County].
- North Carolina
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Jones Mill [Cherokee County].
- Tennessee
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Jones Mill [Henry County].
- Virginia
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Jones Mill [Pittsylvania County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Jones Mill ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Jones Mill:
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 Jones Mill - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Lafayette 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 Lafayette County.
| Arkana | |
| Mars Hill | |
| Boyd | |
| New Lewisville | |
| Deaslee | North Lewisville |
| Herbert | Shreveport Junction |
| Hurricane Hill | Spirit Lake |
| Lewisville Station | Walkers Creek |
| Lochinvar |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Jones Mill 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/ |