Do you know of Taft ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Taft. 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 Taft.
Our sources for Taft (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 Taft other than they indicate that Taft would be found somewhere in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1904 and closed in 1914.
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 Taft ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Taft.
Within North Carolina, the name Taft is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Taft [Cherokee County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Taft.
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Taft [Kern County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Owsley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Taft [Owsley County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Charles Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Taft [Saint Charles Parish].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Taft [Saint Louis County].
- Missouri
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Taft [Butler County].
- Montana
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Taft [Mineral County].
- Nevada
- White Pine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Taft [White Pine County].
- New Mexico
- DeBaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Taft [DeBaca County].
- North Dakota
- Traill County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Taft [Traill County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Muskogee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Taft [Muskogee County].
- Oregon
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Taft [Lincoln County].
- South Carolina
- Williamsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Taft [Williamsburg County].
- Tennessee
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Taft [Lincoln County].
- Texas
- San Patricio County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Taft [San Patricio County].
- Virginia
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Taft [Lancaster County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Taft ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Taft:
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 Buncombe 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 Buncombe 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Taft 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/ |