Do you know of East Durham ???

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

Our sources for East Durham (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 East Durham other than they indicate that East Durham would be found somewhere in Durham County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1926.

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 East Durham ...

We found one communities that share the name East Durham.

Within North Carolina, the name East Durham is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named East Durham in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New York
    • Greene County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of East Durham [Greene County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Durham ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Durham - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for East Durham.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 37/19380   (Place Name: East Durham)

County: Durham     (FIPS State/County: 37/063)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- East Durham) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Durham 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 Durham County.