Do you know of Southwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Southwood. 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 Southwood.
Our sources for Southwood (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 Southwood other than they indicate that Southwood would be found somewhere in Bladen County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1898 and closed in 1915.
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 Southwood ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Southwood.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Southwood.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Lenoir County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Southwood [Lenoir County].
- Lenoir County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Southwood [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Indiana
- LaPorte 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 Indiana community of Southwood [LaPorte County].
- Vigo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Southwood [Vigo County].
- Louisiana
- Ascension Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Southwood [Ascension Parish].
- Iberville 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 Southwood [Iberville Parish].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Southwood [Carroll County].
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Southwood [Onondaga County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Southwood.
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Southwood [Aiken County].
- Utah
- Virginia
- Fairfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Southwood [Fairfax County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Southwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Southwood:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Bladen 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 Bladen 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 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 Southwood 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/ |