Do you know of Thompsonville ???

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

Our sources for Thompsonville (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 Thompsonville other than they indicate that Thompsonville would be found somewhere in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

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 Thompsonville ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Thompsonville.

Within North Carolina, the name Thompsonville is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Hartford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Thompsonville [Hartford County].
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Thompsonville [Kent County].
- Georgia
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Thompsonville [Walker County].
- Illinois
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Thompsonville [Franklin County].
- Kansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Thompsonville [Jefferson County].
- Kentucky
  - Christian 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 Kentucky community of Thompsonville [Christian County].
  - Pulaski County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Thompsonville [Pulaski County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Thompsonville [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Thompsonville [Middlesex County].
- Michigan
  - Benzie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Thompsonville [Benzie County].
- Mississippi
  - Hinds County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Thompsonville [Hinds County].
- New York
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Thompsonville [Sullivan County].
- Oklahoma
  - Creek County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Thompsonville [Creek County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Thompsonville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Thompsonville [Washington County].
- Texas
  - Gonzales County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Thompsonville [Gonzales County].
  - Jim Hogg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Thompsonville [Jim Hogg County].
- Utah
  - Piute County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Thompsonville [Piute County].
- Wisconsin
  - Racine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Thompsonville [Racine County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Thompsonville ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Thompsonville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Thompsonville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 37/67440 (Place Name: Thompsonville)

County: Rockingham (FIPS State/County: 37/157)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Rockingham 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 Rockingham County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Thompsonville 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.