Do you know of Outlook ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1906.

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 Outlook ...

We found five communities that share the name Outlook.

Within North Carolina, the name Outlook is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, three are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Montana
    • Sheridan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Outlook [Sheridan County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Outlook.
  • Oregon
    • Clackamas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Outlook [Clackamas County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Outlook.
  • Washington
    • Yakima County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Outlook [Yakima County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Outlook ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Madison 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 Madison County.