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Do you know of Western Prong ???

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

We found mention of Western Prong as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bladen 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.<2>

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Western Prong ...

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

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  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.

Big SwampLoveland
Bladenboro NorthLyon's Landing
Bluefield Crossroads 
BrinklandMagruder
BromptonMarlville
 Marsden
CedarMcKees
CeylonMelvinsville
Colly SwampMoscow
Councils Station 
Cypress CreekNat Moore
  
DaltonOrbit
Dawson's Landing 
DowingvillePax
 Perryville
EdgePopuli
ElkinsvillePortersville
EllisProspect Hall
Ellisville 
 Register
Fatima 
FolsomSand Bluff
 Sites
Gravel HillSouthwood
Guyton 
 Tobemory
Ham 
HocutWest Brook
 White Hall
KlondikeWillis Creek
 Winnie
Little Sugar Loaf 
Live OakYorkville
Loaf 

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>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.









 

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