Do you know of Jeptha ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1901.

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 Jeptha ...

We found two communities that share the name Jeptha.

Within North Carolina, the name Jeptha is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Madison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Jeptha [Madison County].
  • Kentucky
    • Morgan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Jeptha [Morgan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Jeptha ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Transylvania 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 Transylvania County.