Do you know of Blackburn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blackburn. 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 Blackburn.
Our sources for Blackburn (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 Blackburn other than they indicate that Blackburn would be found somewhere in Jones County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1912.
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 Blackburn ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Blackburn.
Within Mississippi, the name Blackburn is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, twenty are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Blackburn [Washington County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Blackburn [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Blackburn [Claiborne Parish].
- Missouri
- Saline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Blackburn [Saline County].
- Nevada
- Eureka County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Blackburn [Eureka County].
- North Carolina
- Catawba County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Blackburn [Catawba County].
- Ohio
- Columbiana 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 Ohio community of Blackburn [Columbiana County].
- Hocking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Blackburn [Hocking County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Blackburn [Morgan County].
- Oklahoma
- Pawnee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Blackburn [Pawnee County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Blackburn.
- Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Blackburn [Westmoreland County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Blackburn.
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Blackburn [Salt Lake County].
- West Virginia
- Gilmer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Blackburn [Gilmer County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blackburn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blackburn:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Jones 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 Jones County.
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 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 Blackburn 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/ |