Do you know of Union Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Union Mills. 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 Union Mills.

We found mention of Union Mills as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tippah County, Mississippi.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1847 and closed in 1886.

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 Union Mills ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Union Mills.

Within Mississippi, the name Union Mills is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Nevada County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Union Mills [Nevada County].
- Indiana
  - LaPorte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Union Mills [LaPorte County].
- Iowa
  - Mahaska County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Union Mills [Mahaska County].
- Kentucky
  - Jessamine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Union Mills [Jessamine County].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Union Mills [Carroll County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Union Mills.
- New Jersey
  - Burlington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Union Mills [Burlington County].
- New York
  - Fulton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Union Mills [Fulton County].
- North Carolina
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Union Mills [Rutherford County].
- Oregon
  - Clackamas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Union Mills [Clackamas County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Mifflin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Union Mills [Mifflin County].
- Virginia
  - Fluvanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Union Mills [Fluvanna County].
- West Virginia
  - Pleasants County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Union Mills [Pleasants County].
- Wisconsin
  - Iowa 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 Wisconsin community of Union Mills [Iowa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Union Mills ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Tippah 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 Tippah County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Union Mills 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/