Do you know of Divide ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Divide. 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 Divide.
Our sources for Divide (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 Divide other than they indicate that Divide would be found somewhere in Lawrence County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1905 and closed in 1908.
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 Divide ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Divide.
Within Mississippi, the name Divide is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 27 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Conway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Divide [Conway County].
- California
- Colorado
- Chaffee 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 Colorado community of Divide [Chaffee County].
- El Paso County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Divide [El Paso County].
- Teller County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Divide [Teller County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Divide [Jefferson County].
- Kentucky
- Harlan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Divide [Harlan County].
- Montana
- Silver Bow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Divide [Silver Bow County].
- Nebraska
- Sherman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Divide [Sherman County].
- Nevada
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Divide.
- North Dakota
- Eddy County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Divide [Eddy County].
- Ohio
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Divide [Guernsey County].
- Oklahoma
- Pushmataha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Divide [Pushmataha County].
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Divide [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Divide [Columbia County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Divide.
- Texas
- Coke 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 Texas community of Divide [Coke County].
- Hopkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Divide [Hopkins County].
- Kerr County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Divide [Kerr County].
- Washington
- Lewis 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 Washington community of Divide [Lewis County].
- Walla Walla County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Divide [Walla Walla County].
- West Virginia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Divide [Fayette County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Divide ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Divide:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southern States
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County.
| Bismark | Macksmith |
| Blountville | |
| Bournham | Newit |
| Boyd | |
| Boyud | Sauls |
| Saulsbury | |
| Gwinville | |
| Wells Town | |
| Hebron | White Sand |
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 Divide 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/ |