Do you know of The Oaks ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about The Oaks. 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 The Oaks.<1>
We found mention of The Oaks as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lowndes 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 1878 and closed in 1886.
Communities Also Named The Oaks ...
We found 34 communities that share the name The Oaks.
There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named The Oaks.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of The Oaks [Madison County].
- Madison County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Lonoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of The Oaks [Lonoke County].
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Oaks [Los Angeles County].
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Oaks [Mendocino County].
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Oaks [Nevada County].
- San Luis Obispo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Oaks [San Luis Obispo County].
- Connecticut
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of The Oaks [Windham County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of The Oaks [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of The Oaks [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of The Oaks [Bell County].
- McCracken County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of The Oaks [McCracken County].
- Ohio County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of The Oaks [Ohio County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Oaks [Claiborne Parish].
- Maryland
- Calvert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Oaks [Calvert County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Oaks [Howard County].
- Saint Mary's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Oaks [Saint Mary's County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of The Oaks [Clay County].
- North Carolina
- Craven County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Oaks [Craven County].
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Oaks [Cumberland County].
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Oaks [Davidson County].
- Johnston County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Oaks [Johnston County].
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Oaks [Orange County].
- Oklahoma
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of The Oaks [Cherokee County].
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of The Oaks [Douglas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of The Oaks [Montgomery County].
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of The Oaks [Berkeley County].
- Texas
- Bee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Oaks [Bee County].
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Oaks [Polk County].
- Tarrant County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Oaks [Tarrant County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of The Oaks [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- Accomack County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Oaks [Accomack County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for The Oaks ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about The Oaks:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Lowndes 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 Lowndes County.
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> | 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 The Oaks 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |