Do you know of Chaparral ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Chaparral. 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 Chaparral.<1>
Our sources for Chaparral (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 Chaparral other than they indicate that Chaparral would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1908.
Communities Also Named Chaparral ...
We found three communities that share the name Chaparral.
Within Mississippi, the name Chaparral is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- New Mexico
- Dona Ana County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Chaparral [Dona Ana County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chaparral ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Chaparral:
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 Wayne 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 Wayne County.
| Amazon | Fonde |
| Frostbridge | |
| Boyce | |
| Britton | Mason |
| Bucatunna | Miltonville |
| Carl | Pine Bluff |
| Coyt | Pogression |
| Diamond | Round Pond |
| Diaz | |
| Taylorton | |
| Edney | |
| Eset | Uriel |
| Fedora | Water Oak |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |