Do you know of Sparta ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sparta. 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 Sparta.
We found mention of Sparta as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Edgecombe 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 1828 and closed in 1879.
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 Sparta ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Sparta.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Sparta.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Alleghany County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sparta [Alleghany County].
- Alleghany County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Conecuh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sparta [Conecuh County].
- Georgia
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sparta [Hancock County].
- Illinois
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sparta [Randolph County].
- Indiana
- Dearborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sparta [Dearborn County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sparta [Gallatin County].
- Louisiana
- Bienville Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Sparta [Bienville Parish].
- Michigan
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sparta [Kent County].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Sparta [Saint Louis County].
- Mississippi
- Chickasaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sparta [Chickasaw County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Sparta [Knox County].
- New Jersey
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Sparta [Sussex County].
- New York
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sparta [Westchester County].
- Ohio
- Athens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sparta [Athens County].
- Morrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sparta [Morrow County].
- Stark 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 Ohio community of Sparta [Stark County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sparta.
- Oregon
- Baker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Sparta [Baker County].
- Pennsylvania
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sparta [Washington County].
- Tennessee
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sparta [White County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sparta [Caroline County].
- Wisconsin
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Sparta [Monroe County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sparta ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sparta:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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 Edgecombe 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 Edgecombe County.
| Bricks | Knights |
| Bullocks Crossroads | |
| Medora | |
| Doehead | |
| North Rocky Mount | |
| East Rocky Mount | |
| Red Hill | |
| Kingsboro |
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 Sparta 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/ |