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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Houstonville came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Houstonville in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Houstonville. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Houstonville data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Houstonville:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)

Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)

Published by John T. Towers

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

In addition:

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Houstonville. See our Misc Page for Houstonville for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/