Do you know of Nashville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Nashville. 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 Nashville.
We found mention of Nashville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Coffey County, Kansas.
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 1858 and closed in 1866.
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 Nashville ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Nashville.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Nashville.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 32 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Kingman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Nashville [Kingman County].
- Kingman County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Nashville [Howard County].
- California
- El Dorado County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Nashville [El Dorado County].
- Georgia
- Berrien County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Nashville [Berrien County].
- Idaho
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Nashville [Franklin County].
- Illinois
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Nashville [Washington County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Nashville [Jackson County].
- Maine
- Michigan
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Nashville [Barry County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Lowndes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Nashville [Lowndes County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Nashville [Washington County].
- Nevada
- Washoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Nashville [Washoe County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Nash County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Nashville [Nash County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Benton 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 Oregon community of Nashville [Benton County].
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Nashville [Lincoln County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Nashville [Davidson County].
- Texas
- Milam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Nashville [Milam County].
- Vermont
- Chittenden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Nashville [Chittenden County].
- Wisconsin
- Forest County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Nashville [Forest County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nashville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Nashville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Coffey 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 Coffey County.
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 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 Nashville 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/ |