Do you know of Memphis ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Memphis. 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 Memphis.
Our sources for Memphis (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 Memphis other than they indicate that Memphis would be found somewhere in Saint Clair County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848.
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 Memphis ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Memphis.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Memphis.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Macomb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Memphis [Macomb County].
- Macomb County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Florida
- Manatee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Memphis [Manatee County].
- Indiana
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Memphis [Clark County].
- Mississippi
- DeSoto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Memphis [DeSoto County].
- Missouri
- Scotland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Memphis [Scotland County].
- Nebraska
- Saunders County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Memphis [Saunders County].
- New Mexico
- Taos County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Memphis [Taos County].
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Memphis [Onondaga County].
- Ohio
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Memphis [Clinton County].
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Memphis [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Memphis [Hall County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Memphis ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Memphis:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |