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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shipps Spur. 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 Shipps Spur.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Shipps Spur was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Shipps Spur would be found somewhere in Sumter County, Georgia.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shipps Spur ...

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

Cities, Towns and Communities of Georgia Between 1847-1962
Written by: Hemperly, Marion R.
Published by the Southern Historical Press, 1980
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The FIPS database contains an entry for Shipps Spur.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 13/70512   (Place Name: Shipps Spur)

County: Sumter     (FIPS State/County: 13/261)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Shipps Spur) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Sumter 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 Sumter County.

AddertonMarket
AtwoodMuckalee
  
BotsfordNewpoint
  
Chamblis MillOgden
Chambliss 
 Plains Of Dura
East AmericusProvidence
Ellaville 
 Roney
Foster 
 Salter
HudsonSarah
 South Americus
JordanvilleSumter City
  
Leslie - DeSotoTropic
Leslie Station 
LittlejohnYaw
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.