Do you know of Fort Stephens ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Stephens. 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 Fort Stephens.<1>

Our sources for Fort Stephens (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 Fort Stephens other than they indicate that Fort Stephens would be found somewhere in Kemper County, Mississippi.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Stephens ...

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

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Fort Stephens.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 28/25580   (Place Name: Fort Stephens)

County: Kemper     (FIPS State/County: 28/069)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Fort Stephens) 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  Kemper 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 Kemper County.