Do you know of Denton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Denton. 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 Denton.
Our sources for Denton (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 Denton other than they indicate that Denton would be found somewhere in Coffee County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1885 and closed in 1900.
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 Denton ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Denton.
There is one other community in Georgia which is also named Denton.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Jeff Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Denton [Jeff Davis County].
- Jeff Davis County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Denton [Colbert County].
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Doniphan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Denton [Doniphan County].
- Kentucky
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Denton [Carter County].
- Maryland
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Denton [Caroline County].
- Michigan
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Denton [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
- Quitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Denton [Quitman County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Denton [Fergus County].
- Nebraska
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Denton [Lancaster County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Denton [Orange County].
- North Carolina
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Denton [Davidson County].
- Oklahoma
- Stephens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Denton [Stephens County].
- Pennsylvania
- Indiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Denton [Indiana County].
- Tennessee
- Cocke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Denton [Cocke County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Denton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Denton:
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 Denton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1895 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Coffee 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 Coffee 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 Denton 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/ |