Do you know of Round Mountain ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Round Mountain. 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 Round Mountain.<1>

Our sources for Round Mountain (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 Round Mountain other than they indicate that Round Mountain would be found somewhere in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1906.

Communities Also Named Round Mountain ...

We found ten communities that share the name Round Mountain.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Round Mountain.

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

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Transylvania County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Round Mountain [Transylvania County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Round Mountain [Cherokee County].
- Arkansas
  - Conway County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Round Mountain [Conway County].
  - Faulkner County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Round Mountain [Faulkner County].
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Round Mountain [Shasta County].
- Maine
  - Aroostook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Round Mountain [Aroostook County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Round Mountain [Franklin County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Round Mountain [Nye County].
- Texas
  - Blanco County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Round Mountain [Blanco County].
  - Travis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Round Mountain [Travis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Round Mountain ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Round Mountain - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in Wilkes 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 Wilkes County.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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 Round Mountain 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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/