Do you know of Carrollton ???

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

Our sources for Carrollton (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 Carrollton other than they indicate that Carrollton would be found somewhere in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1844 and closed in 1882.

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 Carrollton ...

We found 25 communities that share the name Carrollton.

There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Carrollton.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Orleans Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Carrollton [Orleans Parish].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Pickens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Carrollton [Pickens County].
- Arkansas
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Carrollton [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
- Illinois
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Carrollton [Greene County].
- Indiana
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Carrollton [Hancock County].
- Iowa
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
- Kentucky
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Carrollton [Frederick County].
  - Prince George's 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 Maryland community of Carrollton [Prince George's County].
- Michigan
  - Macomb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Carrollton [Macomb County].
  - Saginaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Carrollton [Saginaw County].
- Mississippi
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
- Missouri
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
- New York
  - Cattaraugus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Carrollton [Cattaraugus County].
- Ohio
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Carrollton [Carroll County].
  - Montgomery 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 Ohio community of Carrollton [Montgomery County].
- Texas
  - Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Carrollton [Dallas County].
- Virginia
  - Isle of Wight County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Carrollton [Isle of Wight County].
- Washington
  - Cowlitz 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 Washington community of Carrollton [Cowlitz County].
- West Virginia
  - Barbour County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Carrollton [Barbour County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dunn 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 Wisconsin community of Carrollton [Dunn County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carrollton ...

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

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 Carrollton - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

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

Carrollton was listed as Carrollton Courthouse.

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

More Orphans in Jefferson Parish ...

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 Jefferson Parish.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Carrollton 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 parish. 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/