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Do you know of Guss ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Guss. 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 Guss.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1892.

Communities Also Named Guss ...

We found one communities that share the name Guss.

Within North Carolina, the name Guss is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Taylor County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Guss [Taylor County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Guss ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

More Orphans in  Iredell 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 Iredell County.

AbernethyMaple Bottom
Amity HallMcCurdy
AmityMiller
ArmfieldMooresville Junction
  
BantonNet
Bethany ChurchNew Stirling
BryantsvilleNicholson's Mills
  
ClioOak Forest
 Oakdale
Daltonia 
DunlapPerth
 Plott's
EaglePoplar Grove
EmpirePost Oak
EnolaPressly
Eupeptic Springs 
EvalinRiver Hill
 Rock Cut
FallstownRod
Fancy Hill 
FlakeScott's Crossroads
FriendsSettle
FulbrightSigma
 Sloan
Granite HillSpring Grove
GratzSpring
 Sweet Home
Hilo 
 Talmage
Jenning's Mills 
 Vance
Linker 
LongfordWaugh
 Weisner

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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