Do you know of Forbes ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Forbes. 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 Forbes.
Our sources for Forbes (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 Forbes other than they indicate that Forbes would be found somewhere in Mitchell County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1904 and closed in 1953.
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 Forbes ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Forbes.
Within North Carolina, the name Forbes is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forbes [Marin County].
- Colorado
- Las Animas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Forbes [Las Animas County].
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Forbes [Saint Louis County].
- Missouri
- Holt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Forbes [Holt County].
- North Dakota
- Dickey County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Forbes [Dickey County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Forbes.
- Texas
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Forbes [Jasper County].
- Virginia
- Buckingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Forbes [Buckingham County].
- Rockbridge 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 Virginia community of Forbes [Rockbridge County].
- Washington
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Forbes [Mason County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forbes ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Forbes:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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 Forbes.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 37/24040 (Place Name: Forbes)
County: Mitchell (FIPS State/County: 37/121)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Forbes) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County.
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 Forbes 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |