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Do you know of Chambers ???

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

We found mention of Chambers as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bolivar County, Mississippi.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1911 and closed  in 1951.

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 Chambers ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Chambers.

Within Mississippi, the name Chambers is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Montgomery 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 Alabama community of Chambers [Montgomery County].
      • Tuscaloosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chambers [Tuscaloosa County].
    • Arizona
      • Apache County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Chambers [Apache County].
    • Idaho
      • Latah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Chambers [Latah County].
    • Kentucky
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Chambers [Hancock County].
      • Menifee 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 Kentucky community of Chambers [Menifee County].
    • Louisiana
      • Rapides Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Chambers [Rapides Parish].
    • Nebraska
      • Holt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Chambers [Holt County].
    • New York
      • Chemung County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Chambers [Chemung County].
    • North Carolina
      • Burke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Chambers [Burke County].
    • Ohio
      • Wood 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 Chambers [Wood County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Pittsburg County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Chambers [Pittsburg 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 Chambers.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of Chambers [Westmoreland County].
    • Tennessee
      • McNairy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Chambers [McNairy County].
      • Obion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Chambers [Obion County].
    • 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 Chambers [Salt Lake County].
    • Washington
      • Whitman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Chambers [Whitman County].
    • West Virginia
      • Logan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Chambers [Logan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chambers ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Chambers.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 28/12800   (Place Name: Chambers)

County: Bolivar     (FIPS State/County: 28/011)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Chambers) 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  Bolivar 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 Bolivar County.

Alligator LakeKuhns
Australia 
AvondaleLittle
  
BellevueMasonton
BellisleMaxime
BibbsMoore's
Bula 
 Nebletts Landing
Catfish PointNugents
Content 
 Oak Wood
Dahomey 
 Phalia
Everston 
 Rex
GaylesvilleRiverton
Gladstone 
 Stafford
HarlowStormville
Huntington 
 Terrene
IvyTileville
  
JosephineWyandotte
  

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 Chambers 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/









 

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