Do you know of Finger ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 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 Finger ...

We found three communities that share the name Finger.

Within Mississippi, the name Finger is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Finger.
  • North Carolina
    • Stanly County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Finger [Stanly County].
  • Tennessee
    • McNairy County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Finger [McNairy County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Finger ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Finger - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Tippah 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 Tippah County.