Do you know of Brent ???

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

Our sources for Brent (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 Brent other than they indicate that Brent would be found somewhere in Leflore County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1898 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 Brent ...

We found ten communities that share the name Brent.

Within Mississippi, the name Brent is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Bibb County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brent [Bibb County].
  • Florida
    • Escambia County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Brent [Escambia County].
  • Georgia
    • Monroe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brent [Monroe County].
  • Kentucky
    • Campbell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Brent [Campbell County].
  • Louisiana
    • Caddo Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Brent [Caddo Parish].
  • Missouri
    • Pemiscot County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brent [Pemiscot County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Sequoyah County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Brent [Sequoyah County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Brent.
  • Pennsylvania
    • Lawrence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brent [Lawrence County].
  • South Carolina
    • Sumter County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brent [Sumter County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brent ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Leflore 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 Leflore County.