Do you know of Poplar Grove ???

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

We found mention of Poplar Grove as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Iredell County, North Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1829 and closed in 1856.

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 Poplar Grove ...

We found 35 communities that share the name Poplar Grove.

There are three communities within North Carolina that are also named Poplar Grove.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 30 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Grove [Polk County].
- Sampson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Grove [Sampson County].
- Watauga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Grove [Watauga County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Poplar Grove [Phillips County].
  - Saint Francis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Poplar Grove [Saint Francis County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Poplar Grove.
- Georgia
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Poplar Grove [Franklin County].
- Illinois
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Poplar Grove [Boone County].
  - Rock Island County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Poplar Grove [Rock Island County].
- Indiana
  - Howard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Poplar Grove [Howard County].
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Poplar Grove [Marion County].
- Iowa
  - Hamilton 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 Iowa community of Poplar Grove [Hamilton County].
- Kentucky
  - Fleming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Poplar Grove [Fleming County].
  - McLean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Poplar Grove [McLean County].
  - Owen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Poplar Grove [Owen County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Landry Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Poplar Grove [Saint Landry Parish].
  - West Baton Rouge Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Poplar Grove [West Baton Rouge Parish].
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Poplar Grove [Harford County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Poplar Grove.
- Ohio
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Poplar Grove [Pike County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Poplar Grove.
- Pennsylvania
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Poplar Grove [Fayette County].
  - Lancaster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Poplar Grove [Lancaster County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Poplar Grove.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Poplar Grove.
- Tennessee
  - Anderson 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 Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Anderson County].
  - Claiborne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Claiborne County].
  - Gibson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Gibson County].
  - Humphreys County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Humphreys County].
  - Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Lauderdale County].
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Putnam County].
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Sullivan County].
  - Tipton County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Grove [Tipton County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake 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 Utah community of Poplar Grove [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - New Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Poplar Grove [New Kent County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poplar Grove ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Iredell 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 Iredell 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Poplar Grove 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/