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Do you know of White Oak Gap ???

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

Our sources for White Oak Gap (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 Oak Gap other than they indicate that White Oak Gap would be found somewhere in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1867 and closed  in 1905.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for White Oak Gap ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for White Oak Gap - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Pulaski 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 Pulaski County.

BandyLine creek
Barren ForkLorenz
Bird 
BranchMadline
  
Cains StoreNewell
CliffdaleNoxubee
Clio 
CoolidgeParker's Lake
Cumberland FallsPublic
  
DallasRetta
 Rockcastle Springs
East SomersetRulo
Elgin 
ErnstSears
 Shermanville
Flat RockSkip
 Small
Garden CottageSnell
Gertie 
GradeThompsonville
GreenwoodTodd
 Toledo
HallTraylor
Happy Hollow 
HaynesUpland
Hickorynut 
HillsideVelber
  
JunoWaterloo
 West Somerset
LeRoyWhite Lily
LincolnWhitley

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024