Do you know of Sims ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Sims, so we are uncertain whether Sims is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Sims would be found somewhere in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

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 Sims ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Sims.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Sims.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sims [Grant County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sims [Mississippi County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sims [Montgomery County].
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Sims [Shasta County].
- Georgia
  - Lowndes 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 Georgia community of Sims [Lowndes County].
- Illinois
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sims [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
  - Attala 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 Sims [Attala County].
- Missouri
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sims [Butler County].
- North Carolina
  - Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sims [Wilson County].
- North Dakota
  - Morton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sims [Morton County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sims.
- South Carolina
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sims [Richland County].
- Tennessee
  - Wayne 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 Tennessee community of Sims [Wayne County].
- Texas
  - Brazos County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sims [Brazos County].
- West Virginia
  - Greenbrier County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sims [Greenbrier County].

More Orphans in Bartholomew 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 Bartholomew 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 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 Sims 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.