Do you know of Jerome ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Jerome. 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 Jerome.
Our sources for Jerome (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 Jerome other than they indicate that Jerome would be found somewhere in Heard County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 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 Jerome ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Jerome.
Within Georgia, the name Jerome is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Yavapai County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Jerome [Yavapai County].
- Arkansas
- Drew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Jerome [Drew County].
- California
- Siskiyou County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Jerome [Siskiyou County].
- Florida
- Collier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Jerome [Collier County].
- Idaho
- Jerome County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Jerome [Jerome County].
- Illinois
- Sangamon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Jerome [Sangamon County].
- Indiana
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Jerome [Howard County].
- Iowa
- Appanoose County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Jerome [Appanoose County].
- Kansas
- Atchison 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 Jerome [Atchison County].
- Gove 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 Kansas community of Jerome [Gove County].
- Rawlins 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 Kansas community of Jerome [Rawlins County].
- Michigan
- Hillsdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Jerome [Hillsdale County].
- Missouri
- Phelps County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Jerome [Phelps County].
- North Carolina
- Bladen County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Jerome [Bladen County].
- Johnston 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 North Carolina community of Jerome [Johnston County].
- Ohio
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Jerome [Union County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Jerome.
- Pennsylvania
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Jerome [Somerset County].
- Virginia
- Shenandoah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Jerome [Shenandoah County].
- West Virginia
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Jerome [Morgan County].
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Weston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Jerome [Weston County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Jerome ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Jerome:
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 Jerome - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Heard 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 Heard County.
| Andrews | Loftin |
| Erie | Saint Cloud |
| State Line | |
| Heflin | |
| Horseshoe Bend | Wood's Mill |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Jerome 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/ |