Do you know of Chinquapin ???

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

Our sources for Chinquapin (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 Chinquapin other than they indicate that Chinquapin would be found somewhere in Aiken County, South Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1898 and closed  in 1904.

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 Chinquapin ...

We found six communities that share the name Chinquapin.

There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Chinquapin.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Located In South Carolina ...
  • Greenwood County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Chinquapin [Greenwood County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Mississippi
    • Pearl River County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Chinquapin [Pearl River County].
  • North Carolina
    • Duplin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Chinquapin [Duplin County].
  • Texas
    • Matagorda County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Chinquapin [Matagorda County].
    • San Augustine County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Chinquapin [San Augustine County].
  • Virginia
    • Augusta County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Chinquapin [Augusta County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chinquapin ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Aiken 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 Aiken County.