Do you know of South Point ???

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

Our sources for South Point (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 South Point other than they indicate that South Point would be found somewhere in Gaston County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1831 and closed  in 1902.

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 South Point ...

We found seven communities that share the name South Point.

Within North Carolina, the name South Point is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Louisiana
    • Orleans Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of South Point [Orleans Parish].
  • Missouri
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of South Point [Franklin County].
  • Ohio
    • Lawrence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of South Point [Lawrence County].
  • South Carolina
    • Florence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of South Point [Florence County].
    • York County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of South Point [York County].
  • Texas
    • Cameron County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of South Point [Cameron County].
  • Virginia
    • Accomack County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of South Point [Accomack County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Point ...

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

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 South Point - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Gaston 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 Gaston County.