Do you know of Thomasville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Thomasville. 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 Thomasville.
Our sources for Thomasville (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 Thomasville other than they indicate that Thomasville would be found somewhere in Prairie County, Arkansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1881.
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 Thomasville ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Thomasville.
There is one other community in Arkansas which is also named Thomasville.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Arkansas ...
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Thomasville [Lee County].
- Lee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Thomasville [Clarke County].
- Colorado
- Pitkin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Thomasville [Pitkin County].
- Georgia
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Thomasville [Fulton County].
- Thomas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Thomasville [Thomas County].
- Illinois
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Thomasville [Montgomery County].
- Iowa
- Clayton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Thomasville [Clayton County].
- Kansas
- Cowley 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 Kansas community of Thomasville [Cowley County].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Thomasville [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Oregon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Thomasville [Oregon County].
- Montana
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Thomasville [Gallatin County].
- New York
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Thomasville [Clinton County].
- North Carolina
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Thomasville [Davidson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Thomasville.
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Thomasville [York County].
- Tennessee
- Cheatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Thomasville [Cheatham County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Thomasville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Thomasville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
William Bradley Map (1889)
Published by William M. Bradley and Brothers
More Orphans in Prairie 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 Prairie County.
| Belcher | Four Mile Corner |
| Bradix | |
| Prairie Centre | |
| Center Point | |
| Childress | Samterville |
| Surrounded Hill | |
| Des Moines | |
| Twilight | |
| Eighty-Eight Mile Post | |
| Wylie |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Thomasville 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/ |