Do you know of Yorkville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1875 and closed in 1878.

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 Yorkville ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Yorkville.

Within Arkansas, the name Yorkville is unique.

Beyond Arkansas, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Mendocino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Yorkville [Mendocino County].
- Colorado
  - Fremont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Yorkville [Fremont County].
- Georgia
  - Paulding County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Yorkville [Paulding County].
- Illinois
  - Kendall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Yorkville [Kendall County].
- Indiana
  - Dearborn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Yorkville [Dearborn County].
- Michigan
  - Kalamazoo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Yorkville [Kalamazoo County].
- New York
  - New York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Yorkville [New York County].
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Yorkville [Oneida County].
- Ohio
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yorkville [Belmont County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Yorkville.
- South Carolina
  - York 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 South Carolina community of Yorkville [York County].
- Tennessee
  - Gibson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Yorkville [Gibson County].
- Virginia
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Yorkville [York County].
- West Virginia
  - Wayne 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 West Virginia community of Yorkville [Wayne County].
- Wisconsin
  - Racine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Yorkville [Racine County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Yorkville ...

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

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 Sevier 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 Sevier County.

Central	Lemric

Edwin	Nelta Boc

Falls Chapel	Petty
Farribaville
	Rock Hill
Graves Chapel
	Shopton
Halcomb	Silver Hill
	Silver Ridge
Jordanbrook
	Ultima Thule
Kings
	West Line

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Yorkville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/