Do you know of Poplar Springs ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Poplar Springs. 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 Poplar Springs.
We found mention of Poplar Springs as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Hall County, Georgia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1873.
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 Poplar Springs ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Poplar Springs.
There are three communities within Georgia that are also named Poplar Springs.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Catoosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Poplar Springs [Catoosa County].
- Haralson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Poplar Springs [Haralson County].
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Poplar Springs [Oconee County].
- Catoosa County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Barbour County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Poplar Springs [Barbour County].
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Poplar Springs [Lauderdale County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Poplar Springs [Marshall County].
- Winston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Poplar Springs [Winston County].
- Maryland
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Poplar Springs [Howard County].
- Mississippi
- Chickasaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Chickasaw County].
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Holmes County].
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Lauderdale County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Montgomery County].
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Newton County].
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Pontotoc County].
- Union 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 Mississippi community of Poplar Springs [Union County].
- North Carolina
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Springs [Cleveland County].
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Springs [Mecklenburg County].
- Stokes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Springs [Stokes County].
- Surry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Springs [Surry County].
- South Carolina
- Laurens County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Poplar Springs [Laurens County].
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Poplar Springs [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Springs [Carroll County].
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Springs [Henderson County].
- Loudon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Springs [Loudon County].
- Overton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Springs [Overton County].
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Springs [Roane County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poplar Springs ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Poplar Springs:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Hall 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 Hall County.
| Bellmont | |
| Bowdre | New Holland Springs |
| Clarissa | Park Hill |
| Polksville | |
| Glade Mines | |
| Stobo | |
| Morningside Heights | |
| Mud Creek | Yonah |
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 Poplar Springs 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/ |