Do you know of Old Hickory ???

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

Our sources for Old Hickory (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 Old Hickory other than they indicate that Old Hickory would be found somewhere in Simpson County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1848 and closed  in 1892.

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 Old Hickory ...

We found three communities that share the name Old Hickory.

Within Mississippi, the name Old Hickory is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Conway County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Old Hickory [Conway County].
  • Maryland
    • Calvert County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Old Hickory [Calvert County].
  • Tennessee
    • Davidson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Old Hickory [Davidson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Old Hickory ...

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

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 Old Hickory - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Simpson 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 Simpson County.