Do you know of Terra Cotta ???

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

We found mention of Terra Cotta as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jackson County, Missouri.

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.

Communities Also Named Terra Cotta ...

We found eight communities that share the name Terra Cotta.

Within Missouri, the name Terra Cotta is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Riverside County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Terra Cotta [Riverside County].
  - San Diego 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 California community of Terra Cotta [San Diego County].
- Georgia
  - Bibb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Terra Cotta [Bibb County].
- Illinois
  - McHenry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Terra Cotta [McHenry County].
- Kansas
  - Ellsworth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Terra Cotta [Ellsworth County].
- North Carolina
  - Guilford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Terra Cotta [Guilford County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Terra Cotta.
- Utah
  - Salt 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 Utah community of Terra Cotta [Salt Lake County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Terra Cotta ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Jackson County ...

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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 Jackson County.

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 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 Terra Cotta 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.