Do you know of Bates' Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bates' Mills. 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 Bates' Mills.

Our sources for Bates' Mills (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bates' Mills other than they indicate that Bates' Mills would be found somewhere in Amite County, Mississippi.

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 Bates' Mills ...

We found one communities that share the name Bates' Mills.

Within Mississippi, the name Bates' Mills is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, there is another community also named Bates' Mills in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Bates' Mills.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bates' Mills ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Amite 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 Amite County.

Aline	Hurst
Alton
	Kinon
Beall
Brights	Leaton

Cassels	Mada
Cockerhan	Marshalton
	Merwin
Dayton
Dickey	Robinson

Echo	Street

Fair	Tate
	Trent
Gardner
Guy	Whitaker Station

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 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 Bates' Mills 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.