Do you know of Fork Mountain ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fork Mountain. 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 Fork Mountain.

Our sources for Fork Mountain (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 Fork Mountain other than they indicate that Fork Mountain would be found somewhere in Macon County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1888.

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 Fork Mountain ...

We found three communities that share the name Fork Mountain.

Within North Carolina, the name Fork Mountain is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Tennessee
    • Anderson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fork Mountain [Anderson County].
  • Virginia
    • Botetourt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fork Mountain [Botetourt County].
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fork Mountain [Franklin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fork Mountain ...

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

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 Fork Mountain - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Macon 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 Macon County.