Do you know of Big Oak ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Oak. 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 Big Oak.
Our sources for Big Oak (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 Big Oak other than they indicate that Big Oak would be found somewhere in Moore County, North Carolina.
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 Big Oak ...
We found five communities that share the name Big Oak.
Within North Carolina, the name Big Oak is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Big Oak [Lauderdale County].
- Georgia
- Maryland
- Saint Mary's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Big Oak [Saint Mary's County].
- New Jersey
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Big Oak [Cumberland County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Oak ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Big Oak:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Big Oak - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Moore County ...
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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 Moore County.