Do you know of Santee ???

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

Our sources for Santee (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 Santee other than they indicate that Santee would be found somewhere in Covington County, Mississippi.

Communities Also Named Santee ...

We found seven communities that share the name Santee.

There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Santee.

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

Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Jefferson Davis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Santee [Jefferson Davis County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Diego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Santee [San Diego County].
- Nebraska
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Santee [Knox County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Northampton County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Santee [Northampton County].
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Santee [Berkeley County].
  - Orangeburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Santee [Orangeburg County].
- Virginia
  - Caroline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Santee [Caroline County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Santee ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Santee - 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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Covington 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 Covington County.

Dry Creek	Reddoch

Gilmer	Sitka
	Speed
Jona
	Thames
Katie
	Vex
Mount Carmel
	Welch
Oakohay	Wilkesburgh
Oaktomie
	Yawn
Pickering
Powell	Zion Seminary

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Santee 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.