Do you know of Sumpter ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sumpter. 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 Sumpter.
Our sources for Sumpter (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 Sumpter other than they indicate that Sumpter would be found somewhere in White County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1907.
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 Sumpter ...
We found eight communities that share the name Sumpter.
Within Illinois, the name Sumpter is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Bradley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sumpter [Bradley County].
- Kentucky
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sumpter [Wayne County].
- Louisiana
- Lincoln Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Sumpter [Lincoln Parish].
- Michigan
- Oklahoma
- Kay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Sumpter [Kay County].
- Oregon
- Baker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Sumpter [Baker County].
- Tennessee
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sumpter [Sullivan County].
- Texas
- Trinity County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sumpter [Trinity County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sumpter ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sumpter:
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 Sumpter - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in White 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 White County.
| Ball | Norris |
| Nubbin Ridge | |
| Duncanton | |
| Roland Station | |
| Enfield Junction | |
| School | |
| Fraser's | Simpson |
| Springer | |
| Hawthorn | |
| Trumbull | |
| Liberty | |
| Wabash | |
| Marshall's Ferry | White's |
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 Sumpter 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/ |