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Do you know of Oscar ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1907.

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 Oscar ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Oscar.

Within North Carolina, the name Oscar is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • Clay County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Oscar [Clay County].
    • Kentucky
      • Ballard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Oscar [Ballard County].
    • Louisiana
      • Pointe Coupee Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oscar [Pointe Coupee Parish].
    • Minnesota
      • Otter Tail County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Oscar [Otter Tail County].
    • Missouri
      • Texas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Oscar [Texas County].
    • Montana
      • Hill County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Oscar [Hill County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Oscar [Jefferson County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Oscar.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Armstrong County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Oscar [Armstrong County].
    • Texas
      • Bell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Oscar [Bell County].
    • West Virginia
      • Greenbrier County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Oscar [Greenbrier County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oscar ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

BarkerHoosier
Barkers CreekHornyhead
Big Spring 
Blue Wing ChurchOcala
  
CatheyPainter
Custer 
 Quallatown
Deets 
 Scott's Creek
EffieShoal Creek
  
FernhurstThomas Valley
FidelityTuckaseigee
  
GeorgetownWebster Junction
 Whiteside Cove
HallWillets
Harris MineWillits

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 Oscar 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/









 

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