Do you know of Summerville ???

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

Our sources for Summerville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Summerville other than they indicate that Summerville would be found somewhere in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.

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 Summerville ...

We found 32 communities that share the name Summerville.

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

Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 27 are located in the United States and eight are in Canada.

Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- La Salle Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Summerville [La Salle Parish].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Mobile County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Summerville [Mobile County].
- Arkansas
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Summerville [Calhoun County].
- California
  - Siskiyou County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Summerville [Siskiyou County].
  - Tehama County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Summerville [Tehama County].
- Colorado
  - Boulder County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Summerville [Boulder County].
- Florida
  - Duval 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 Florida community of Summerville [Duval County].
- Georgia
  - Chattooga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Summerville [Chattooga County].
  - Gwinnett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Summerville [Gwinnett County].
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Summerville [Richmond County].
- Illinois
  - Macoupin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Summerville [Macoupin County].
- Kansas
  - Leavenworth 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 Kansas community of Summerville [Leavenworth County].
- Maryland
  - Calvert County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Summerville [Calvert County].
- Michigan
  - Cass 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 Michigan community of Summerville [Cass County].
  - Montcalm County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Summerville [Montcalm County].
- Mississippi
  - Noxubee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Summerville [Noxubee County].
- Missouri
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Summerville [Boone County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Summerville.
- New York
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Summerville [Monroe County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Summerville.
- North Carolina
  - Harnett 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 Summerville [Harnett County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Summerville.
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Summerville.
- Oregon
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Summerville [Union County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Summerville [Jefferson County].
  - Susquehanna 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 Pennsylvania community of Summerville [Susquehanna County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Summerville.
- South Carolina
  - Dorchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Summerville [Dorchester County].
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Summerville [Richland County].
- South Dakota
  - Perkins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Summerville [Perkins County].
- Texas
  - Gonzales County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Summerville [Gonzales County].
- Vermont
  - Caledonia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Summerville [Caledonia County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Summerville ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Catahoula 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 Catahoula Parish.

Black River
Burshley Creek	Lavacca

Castor Sulphur Springs	Pisgah
Copeland	Prohibition

Davis	Roesfield
	Routon
Eden
	Stafford Point
Florence	Stafford

Jena	Tooley's

Kirk's Ferry	White Sulphur Springs

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 Summerville 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.