Do you know of Rawles Springs ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rawles Springs. 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 Rawles Springs.<1>
Our sources for Rawles Springs (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 Rawles Springs other than they indicate that Rawles Springs would be found somewhere in Forrest County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1905 and closed in 1927.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rawles Springs ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rawles Springs:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Forrest 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 Forrest County.
| Barron | Ideal |
| Bon Homme | Ipse |
| Camp Shelby | Mammoth Springs |
| Cox | Meyers |
| Dreyfus | Palmer |
| Price | |
| Hattiesburg South | |
| Rosine |
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |