Do you know of Tar River ???

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

Our sources for Tar River (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 Tar River other than they indicate that Tar River would be found somewhere in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1915 and closed  in 1920.

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 Tar River ...

We found one communities that share the name Tar River.

Within Oklahoma, the name Tar River is unique.

Beyond Oklahoma, there is another community also named Tar River in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Carolina
    • Granville County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Tar River [Granville County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tar River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1922)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in  Ottawa County ...

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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 Ottawa County.