Do you know of White Hall ???

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

Our sources for White Hall (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 White Hall other than they indicate that White Hall would be found somewhere in Madison County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843 and closed in 1918.

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 White Hall ...

We found 23 communities that share the name White Hall.

Within Kentucky, the name White Hall is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lowndes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of White Hall [Lowndes County].
- Arkansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of White Hall [Jefferson County].
- California
  - El Dorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of White Hall [El Dorado County].
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of White Hall [Kent County].
- Georgia
  - Clarke 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 White Hall [Clarke County].
- Illinois
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of White Hall [Greene County].
- Louisiana
  - Concordia Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of White Hall [Concordia Parish].
  - Saint James Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of White Hall [Saint James Parish].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of White Hall [Baltimore County].
  - Cecil County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of White Hall [Cecil County].
  - Prince George's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of White Hall [Prince George's County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of White Hall [Worcester County].
- Missouri
  - Andrew County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of White Hall [Andrew County].
- New Jersey
  - Morris 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 New Jersey community of White Hall [Morris County].
- North Carolina
  - Bladen 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 White Hall [Bladen County].
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of White Hall [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of White Hall [Tuscarawas County].
- South Carolina
  - Colleton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of White Hall [Colleton County].
- Texas
  - Bell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of White Hall [Bell County].
  - Coryell 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 Texas community of White Hall [Coryell County].
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of White Hall [Jackson County].
- Virginia
  - Albemarle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of White Hall [Albemarle County].
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of White Hall [Frederick County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for White Hall ...

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

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 White Hall - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

The FIPS database contains an entry for White Hall.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/82560 (Place Name: White Hall)

County: Madison (FIPS State/County: 21/151)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, White Hall) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Madison 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 Madison 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 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 White Hall 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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