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Do you know of Mouth of Laurel ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mouth of Laurel. 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 Mouth of Laurel.<1>

Our sources for Mouth of Laurel (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 Mouth of Laurel other than they indicate that Mouth of Laurel would be found somewhere in Lewis County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1864 and closed  in 1935.

Communities Also Named Mouth of Laurel ...

We found one communities that share the name Mouth of Laurel.

Within Kentucky, the name Mouth of Laurel is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Mouth of Laurel in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Tazewell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mouth of Laurel [Tazewell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mouth of Laurel ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mouth of Laurel - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Lewis 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 Lewis County.

AlburnMcKenzie
Alpena 
 Noah
Boggs 
 Randville
Esculapia SpringsRandyville
 Rock Creek
FairviewRome
Fearis 
FruitStone City
  
GlennTeutonia
 Tharp
HaseltonThor
Head of GrassyTrace
HeseltonTrotter
Hilda 
 Upper Tygart
Jacktown 
 Valley
Kinney 
 Wadsworth
ManchesterWalkerville
MarineWishbone
Martin 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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