Do you know of Flat River ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1903.

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 Flat River ...

We found two communities that share the name Flat River.

Within North Carolina, the name Flat River is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Saint Francois County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Flat River [Saint Francois County].
  • Prince Edward Island
    • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Flat River.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Flat River ...

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

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 Flat River - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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.