Do you know of Taylorsville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Taylorsville. 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 Taylorsville.<1>
We found mention of Taylorsville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Oakland County, Michigan.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1853.
Communities Also Named Taylorsville ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Taylorsville.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Taylorsville.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Mason County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Taylorsville [Mason County].
- Mason County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Madison County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Taylorsville [Madison County].
- California
- Plumas County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Taylorsville [Plumas County].
- Georgia
- Bartow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Taylorsville [Bartow County].
- Indiana
- Bartholomew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Taylorsville [Bartholomew County].
- Iowa
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Taylorsville [Fayette County].
- Kansas
- Stafford County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Taylorsville [Stafford County].
- Kentucky
- Spencer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Taylorsville [Spencer County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Taylorsville [Carroll County].
- Mississippi
- Hinds County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Taylorsville [Hinds County].
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Taylorsville [Smith County].
- North Carolina
- Alexander County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Taylorsville [Alexander County].
- Ohio
- Highland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Taylorsville [Highland County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Taylorsville [Montgomery County].
- Muskingum County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Taylorsville [Muskingum County].
- Pennsylvania
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Taylorsville [Bucks County].
- Indiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Taylorsville [Indiana County].
- Tennessee
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Taylorsville [Maury County].
- Wilson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Taylorsville [Wilson County].
- Texas
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Taylorsville [Caldwell County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Taylorsville [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- Hanover County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Taylorsville [Hanover County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Taylorsville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Taylorsville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Oakland 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 Oakland County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Taylorsville 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 county. 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |