Do you know of Irwin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Irwin. 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 Irwin.
Our sources for Irwin (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 Irwin other than they indicate that Irwin would be found somewhere in Tate County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1895.
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 Irwin ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Irwin.
Within Mississippi, the name Irwin is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Merced County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Irwin [Merced County].
- Colorado
- Gunnison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Irwin [Gunnison County].
- Idaho
- Bonneville County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Irwin [Bonneville County].
- Illinois
- Kankakee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Irwin [Kankakee County].
- Iowa
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Irwin [Shelby County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Irwin [Lewis County].
- Missouri
- Barton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Irwin [Barton County].
- Nebraska
- Cherry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Irwin [Cherry County].
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Irwin [Westmoreland County].
- South Carolina
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Irwin [Lancaster County].
- Tennessee
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Irwin [Union County].
- Texas
- Dallam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Irwin [Dallam County].
- Virginia
- Goochland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Irwin [Goochland County].
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Irwin [Spokane County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Irwin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Irwin:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Irwin - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Tate 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 Tate County.
| Bet | |
| Locust | |
| Cupid | |
| Cypress | Mabry |
| Murry | |
| Eckles | |
| Rainey | |
| Fannie May |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Irwin 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/ |