Do you know of Seymour ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Seymour. 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 Seymour.
Our sources for Seymour (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 Seymour other than they indicate that Seymour would be found somewhere in Harrison County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1907 and closed in 1911.
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 Seymour ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Seymour.
Within Mississippi, the name Seymour is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Seymour [Bibb County].
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Seymour [New Haven County].
- Georgia
- Jackson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Seymour [Jackson County].
- Putnam County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Seymour [Putnam County].
- Illinois
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Seymour [Champaign County].
- Indiana
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Seymour [Jackson County].
- Iowa
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Seymour [Wayne County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Hart County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Seymour [Hart County].
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Seymour [Webster County].
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Seymour [Nye County].
- North Dakota
- Ontario
- Tennessee
- Sevier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Seymour [Sevier County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Lewis County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Seymour [Lewis County].
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Seymour [Mineral County].
- Wisconsin
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Seymour ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Seymour:
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 Harrison 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 Harrison County.
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 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 Seymour 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/ |