Do you know of Water Valley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Water Valley. 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 Water Valley.
Our sources for Water Valley (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 Water Valley other than they indicate that Water Valley would be found somewhere in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1904 and closed in 1911.
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 Water Valley ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Water Valley.
Within Louisiana, the name Water Valley is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Choctaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Water Valley [Choctaw County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Water Valley.
- Colorado
- Kiowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Water Valley [Kiowa County].
- Georgia
- Gordon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Water Valley [Gordon County].
- Illinois
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Water Valley [Union County].
- Indiana
- Lake 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 Indiana community of Water Valley [Lake County].
- Kentucky
- Graves County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Water Valley [Graves County].
- Mississippi
- Yalobusha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Water Valley [Yalobusha County].
- Missouri
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Water Valley [Clay County].
- New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Water Valley [Roosevelt County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Water Valley [Erie County].
- Tennessee
- Dickson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Water Valley [Dickson County].
- Humphreys County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Water Valley [Humphreys County].
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Water Valley [Maury County].
- Texas
- Tom Green County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Water Valley [Tom Green County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Water Valley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Water Valley:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Avoyelles 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 Avoyelles Parish.
| Bayou Rouge | |
| Belledean | Kleinwood |
| Bordeaux | |
| Mansura Junction | |
| Florida Bend | Millburn |
| Fort De Russy | |
| New Belledeau | |
| Green Store | |
| Planchville | |
| Haasville | |
| Hyde | Tilden |
| Hydropolis |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Water Valley 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |