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Do you know of Rainey ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rainey. 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 Rainey. Our sources for Rainey (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 Rainey other than they indicate that Rainey would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Arkansas. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1892. 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 Rainey ...We found two communities that share the name Rainey. Within Arkansas, the name Rainey is unique. Beyond Arkansas, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rainey ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rainey: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rainey - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned William Bradley Map (1889)
More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County. Footnotes ...
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