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Do you know of Gaza ???

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

We found mention of Gaza as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Copiah 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1896 and closed  in 1907.

Communities Also Named Gaza ...

We found three communities that share the name Gaza.

Within Mississippi, the name Gaza is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • O'Brien County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Gaza [O'Brien County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Belknap County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Gaza [Belknap County].
    • South Carolina
      • Beaufort County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Gaza [Beaufort County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gaza ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Copiah 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 Copiah County.

AinsworthKnowles
  
BiggsMaharris
BridgevilleMillsaps
 Mount Hope
Collamer 
CoorshillNannye
Copiah Creek 
 Peetsville
DillardPerks
  
FosterSpencer
 Swilley
Garnersville 
 Venus
Hambone 
HargraveWillmore
Homochitto 
HunterZephyr
  

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>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.
<3>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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