Do you know of Inverness ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Inverness. 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 Inverness.
Our sources for Inverness (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 Inverness other than they indicate that Inverness would be found somewhere in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1912.
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 Inverness ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Inverness.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Inverness.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Hoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Inverness [Hoke County].
- Hoke County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Inverness [Marin County].
- Colorado
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Inverness [Douglas County].
- Florida
- Citrus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Inverness [Citrus County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Inverness [Cook County].
- Indiana
- Steuben County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Inverness [Steuben County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Inverness [Baltimore County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Sunflower County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Inverness [Sunflower County].
- Montana
- Hill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Inverness [Hill County].
- New York
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Inverness [Livingston County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Inverness.
- Ohio
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Inverness.
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Inverness.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Inverness ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Inverness:
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 Inverness - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Inverness 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/ |