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Do you know of Big Swamp ???

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

We found mention of Big Swamp as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bladen 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.

Communities Also Named Big Swamp ...

We found one communities that share the name Big Swamp.

Within North Carolina, the name Big Swamp is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Big Swamp in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Stewart 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 Big Swamp [Stewart County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Swamp ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Bladen 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 Bladen County.

Bladenboro NorthLyon's Landing
Bluefield Crossroads 
BrinklandMagruder
BromptonMarlville
 McKees
CedarMoscow
Ceylon 
Colly SwampNat Moore
Councils Station 
Cypress CreekOrbit
  
DaltonPax
Dawson's LandingPerryville
DowingvillePopuli
 Portersville
EdgeProspect Hall
Ellis 
EllisvilleRegister
  
FatimaSand Bluff
FolsomSites
 Southwood
Gravel Hill 
GuytonTobemory
  
HamWest Brook
HocutWestern Prong
 White Hall
KlondikeWillis Creek
 Winnie
Little Sugar Loaf 
Live OakYorkville
Loaf 

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 Big Swamp 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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