Do you know of Carroll ???

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

Our sources for Carroll (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 Carroll other than they indicate that Carroll would be found somewhere in Deer Lodge County, Montana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1902.

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 Carroll ...

We found 25 communities that share the name Carroll.

There is one other community in Montana which is also named Carroll.

Beyond Montana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Montana ...
- Fergus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Carroll [Fergus County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Hot Spring 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 Arkansas community of Carroll [Hot Spring County].
- Florida
  - Polk 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 Florida community of Carroll [Polk County].
- Georgia
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Carroll [Carroll County].
- Indiana
  - Carroll 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 Indiana community of Carroll [Carroll County].
- Iowa
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Carroll [Carroll County].
- Louisiana
  - Red River Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Carroll [Red River Parish].
  - Union Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Carroll [Union Parish].
- Maine
  - Penobscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Carroll [Penobscot County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Carroll.
- Maryland
  - Baltimore City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Carroll [Baltimore City].
- Mississippi
  - Carroll 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 Mississippi community of Carroll [Carroll County].
- Nebraska
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Carroll [Wayne County].
- Nevada
  - Lander County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Carroll [Lander County].
- New Hampshire
  - Coos County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Carroll [Coos County].
- New York
  - Cattaraugus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Carroll [Cattaraugus County].
- North Carolina
  - Duplin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carroll [Duplin County].
- Ohio
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Carroll [Fairfield County].
- Oregon
  - Baker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Carroll [Baker County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carroll [Clinton County].
  - McKean 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 Pennsylvania community of Carroll [McKean County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Carroll.
- Tennessee
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Carroll [Madison County].
- Texas
  - Smith County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Carroll [Smith County].
- West Virginia
  - Carroll #1
  - 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 Carroll.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carroll ...

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

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Carroll - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge 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 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 Carroll 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/