Do you know of Sharkey ???

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

Our sources for Sharkey (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 Sharkey other than they indicate that Sharkey would be found somewhere in Greene County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1900 and closed  in 1903.

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 Sharkey ...

We found three communities that share the name Sharkey.

Within Indiana, the name Sharkey is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Fleming County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sharkey [Fleming County].
  • Louisiana
    • Tangipahoa Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Sharkey [Tangipahoa Parish].
  • Mississippi
    • Tallahatchie County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sharkey [Tallahatchie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sharkey ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Greene 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 Greene County.