Do you know of Mud Lick ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mud Lick. 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 Mud Lick.
Our sources for Mud Lick (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 Mud Lick other than they indicate that Mud Lick would be found somewhere in Chatham County, North Carolina.
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 Mud Lick ...
We found one communities that share the name Mud Lick.
Within North Carolina, the name Mud Lick is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Mud Lick in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mud Lick [Monroe County].
- Kentucky
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mud Lick ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mud Lick:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mud Lick - Services available: 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
More Orphans in Chatham 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 Chatham County.