Do you know of White House ???

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

Our sources for White House (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of White House other than they indicate that White House would be found somewhere in Randolph 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 White House ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name White House.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named White House.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of White House [Rutherford County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of White House [Marion County].
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of White House [Shasta County].
- Florida
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of White House [Duval County].
- Georgia
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of White House [Henry County].
- Kentucky
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of White House [Johnson County].
- Louisiana
  - Acadia Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of White House [Acadia Parish].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of White House [Baltimore County].
  - Prince George's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of White House [Prince George's County].
- New Jersey
  - Hunterdon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of White House [Hunterdon County].
- Ohio
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of White House [Lawrence County].
  - Lucas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of White House [Lucas 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 White House.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of White House.
- Tennessee
  - Hickman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of White House [Hickman County].
- Texas
  - Smith County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of White House [Smith County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for White House ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Randolph 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 Randolph 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 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 White House 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.