Do you know of Taylorville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Taylorville. 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 Taylorville.
Our sources for Taylorville (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 Taylorville other than they indicate that Taylorville would be found somewhere in Pueblo County, Colorado.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 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 Taylorville ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Taylorville.
Within Colorado, the name Taylorville is unique.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Tuscaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Taylorville [Tuscaloosa County].
- Arkansas
- Woodruff County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Taylorville [Woodruff County].
- California
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Taylorville [Marin County].
- Idaho
- Bonneville County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Taylorville [Bonneville County].
- Illinois
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Taylorville [Christian County].
- Indiana
- Vigo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Taylorville [Vigo County].
- Louisiana
- Union Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Taylorville [Union Parish].
- Maryland
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Taylorville [Worcester County].
- Oregon
- Clatsop County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Taylorville [Clatsop County].
- Pennsylvania
- Indiana 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 Pennsylvania community of Taylorville [Indiana County].
- Lackawanna County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Taylorville [Lackawanna County].
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Taylorville [Schuylkill County].
- Texas
- Fannin 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 Texas community of Taylorville [Fannin County].
- Vermont
- Caledonia 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 Vermont community of Taylorville [Caledonia County].
- West Virginia
- Mingo County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Taylorville [Mingo County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Taylorville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Taylorville:
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 Taylorville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Pueblo County ...
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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 Pueblo County.
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 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 Taylorville 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/ |