Do you know of Morning Star ???

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

We found mention of Morning Star as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Garland County, Arkansas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1943 and closed  in 1958.

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 Morning Star ...

We found nine communities that share the name Morning Star.

There are four communities within Arkansas that are also named Morning Star.

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

• Communities Located In Arkansas ...
  • Greene County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Morning Star [Greene County].
  • Hot Spring County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Morning Star [Hot Spring County].
  • Phillips County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Morning Star [Phillips County].
  • Searcy County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Morning Star [Searcy County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Mississippi
    • Hinds County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Morning Star [Hinds County].
  • North Carolina
    • Haywood County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Morning Star [Haywood County].
  • Ohio
    • Meigs County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Morning Star [Meigs County].
  • Virginia
    • Page County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Morning Star [Page County].
  • West Virginia
    • Roane County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Morning Star [Roane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Morning Star ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Morning Star.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 05/46820   (Place Name: Morning Star)

County: Garland     (FIPS State/County: 05/051)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Morning Star) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Garland 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 Garland County.