Do you know of South River ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1860 and closed in 1907.

Communities Also Named South River ...

We found eight communities that share the name South River.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named South River.

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

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Carteret County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of South River [Carteret County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of South River [Anne Arundel County].
- Missouri
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of South River [Marion County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of South River.
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex 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 New Jersey community of South River [Middlesex County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of South River.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of South River.
- Virginia
  - Rockbridge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of South River [Rockbridge County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South River ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Rowan 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 Rowan 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 South River 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/