Do you know of Temple ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Temple. 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 Temple.
Our sources for Temple (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Temple other than they indicate that Temple would be found somewhere in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
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 Temple ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Temple.
Within Mississippi, the name Temple is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Little River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Temple [Little River County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Temple [Carroll County].
- Indiana
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Temple [Crawford County].
- Louisiana
- Vernon Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Temple [Vernon Parish].
- Maine
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Temple [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Clare County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Temple [Clare County].
- Missouri
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Temple [Vernon County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Temple.
- New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Temple [Hillsborough County].
- New Mexico
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Temple [Colfax County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Williams County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Temple [Williams County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Cotton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Temple [Cotton County].
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Temple [Bell County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Temple ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Temple:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Temple - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale 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 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 Temple 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. |