Do you know of Carr ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carr. 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 Carr.

We found mention of Carr as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jackson County, Indiana.

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 1844 and closed in 1847.

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 Carr ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Carr.

Within Indiana, the name Carr is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Poinsett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Carr [Poinsett County].
- California
  - Santa Barbara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Carr [Santa Barbara County].
- Colorado
  - Weld County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Carr [Weld County].
- Florida
  - Calhoun 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 Florida community of Carr [Calhoun County].
- Michigan
  - Mason County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Carr [Mason County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Carr [Saint Louis County].
  - Stone 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 Missouri community of Carr [Stone County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Carr.
- New Mexico
  - Cibola County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Carr [Cibola County].
  - DeBaca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Carr [DeBaca County].
- North Carolina
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carr [Orange County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Carr.
- Texas
  - Titus 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 Texas community of Carr [Titus County].
  - Victoria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Carr [Victoria County].
- Utah
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Carr [Weber County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carr ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Jackson 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 Jackson County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Carr 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/