Do you know of Blackwater ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blackwater. 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 Blackwater.
Our sources for Blackwater (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 Blackwater other than they indicate that Blackwater would be found somewhere in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1918.
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 Blackwater ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Blackwater.
There are two communities within Mississippi that are also named Blackwater.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Kemper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Blackwater [Kemper County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Blackwater [Marshall County].
- Kemper County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Pinal County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Blackwater [Pinal County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Blackwater.
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Blackwater [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Blackwater [Hillsborough County].
- Kentucky
- Laurel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Blackwater [Laurel County].
- Menifee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Blackwater [Menifee County].
- Wolfe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Blackwater [Wolfe County].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Blackwater [Aroostook County].
- Maryland
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Blackwater [Dorchester County].
- Missouri
- Cooper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Blackwater [Cooper County].
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Blackwater [Johnson County].
- New Hampshire
- Strafford County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Blackwater [Strafford County].
- 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 Blackwater.
- Virginia
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Blackwater [Lee County].
- Mathews County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Blackwater [Mathews County].
- Virginia Beach City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Blackwater [Virginia Beach City].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blackwater ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blackwater:
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.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Blackwater.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 28/06660 (Place Name: Blackwater)
County: Lafayette (FIPS State/County: 28/071)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Blackwater) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Lafayette 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 Lafayette County.
| Blands | |
| Maple Springs | |
| Cambridge | Morganville |
| Caswell | Mount Sylvan |
| Mullins Store | |
| Dallas | |
| Noah | |
| Gault | |
| Gomez | Orwood |
| Holder | Pine Flat |
| Kilgore | Shinault |
| Liberty Hill | Walton |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Blackwater 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/ |