Do you know of Mount Gilead ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Mount Gilead, so we are uncertain whether Mount Gilead 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 Mount Gilead would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Kentucky.

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 Mount Gilead ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Mount Gilead.

There are two communities within Kentucky that are also named Mount Gilead.

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

Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Green County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mount Gilead [Green County].
- Mason County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mount Gilead [Mason County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Barbour County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mount Gilead [Barbour County].
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mount Gilead [Calhoun County].
- North Carolina
  - Avery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Gilead [Avery County].
  - Cabarrus 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 North Carolina community of Mount Gilead [Cabarrus County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Gilead [Montgomery County].
- Ohio
  - Morrow County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Gilead [Morrow County].
  - Seneca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Gilead [Seneca County].
- South Carolina
  - Horry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mount Gilead [Horry County].
- Tennessee
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Gilead [Cumberland County].
  - Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Gilead [Henderson County].
- Virginia
  - Loudoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mount Gilead [Loudoun County].

More Orphans in Monroe 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 Monroe County.

Baileys Branch
Black's Ferry	Ebenezer
Bushong
	Moores Mill
Center Point
Centre Point	Strode
Chappels

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 Mount Gilead 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.