Do you know of Morristown ???

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

We found mention of Morristown as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cass County, Missouri.

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1871.

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 Morristown ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Morristown.

Within Missouri, the name Morristown is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Morristown [Maricopa County].
- California
  - Sierra County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Morristown [Sierra County].
- Illinois
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Morristown [Henry County].
  - Winnebago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Morristown [Winnebago County].
- Indiana
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Morristown [Shelby County].
- Minnesota
  - Rice County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Morristown [Rice County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Morristown [Nye County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Morristown [Middlesex County].
  - Morris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Morristown [Morris County].
- New York
  - Saint Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Morristown [Saint Lawrence County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Morristown.
- Ohio
  - Athens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Morristown [Athens County].
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Morristown [Belmont County].
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Morristown [Tuscarawas County].
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Morristown [Warren County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler 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 Morristown [Butler County].
- South Dakota
  - Corson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Morristown [Corson County].
- Tennessee
  - Hamblen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Morristown [Hamblen County].
- Vermont
  - Lamoille County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Morristown [Lamoille County].
- West Virginia
  - Wirt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Morristown [Wirt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Morristown ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in Cass 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 Cass County.

Baldwin Lake	Gerard
Belton Station
	Hazen
Eight Mile
	Skaggs

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Morristown 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.

<2>

A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/