Do you know of Mount Tabor ???

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

Our sources for Mount Tabor (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 Mount Tabor other than they indicate that Mount Tabor would be found somewhere in Union County, South Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1837 and closed in 1936.

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 Mount Tabor ...

We found 25 communities that share the name Mount Tabor.

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

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Georgetown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mount Tabor [Georgetown County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mount Tabor [Morgan County].
- Arkansas
  - Drew 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 Arkansas community of Mount Tabor [Drew County].
  - Garland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mount Tabor [Garland County].
- Florida
  - Columbia 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 Florida community of Mount Tabor [Columbia County].
- Indiana
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mount Tabor [Monroe County].
- Kentucky
  - Larue 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 Mount Tabor [Larue County].
  - Todd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mount Tabor [Todd County].
- New Jersey
  - Morris 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 New Jersey community of Mount Tabor [Morris County].
- North Carolina
  - Columbus 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 North Carolina community of Mount Tabor [Columbus County].
  - Forsyth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Tabor [Forsyth County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Tabor [Washington County].
- Ohio
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Tabor [Logan County].
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Tabor [Tuscarawas County].
- Oregon
  - Multnomah 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 Oregon community of Mount Tabor [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mount Tabor [Adams County].
  - Armstrong County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mount Tabor [Armstrong County].
- Tennessee
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Tabor [Blount County].
  - Decatur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Tabor [Decatur County].
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Tabor [Rutherford County].
- Vermont
  - Rutland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Mount Tabor [Rutland County].
- Virginia
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mount Tabor [Montgomery County].
- West Virginia
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mount Tabor [Harrison County].
  - Raleigh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mount Tabor [Raleigh County].
- Wisconsin
  - Vernon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mount Tabor [Vernon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Tabor ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

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 Mount Tabor.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 45/48580 (Place Name: Mount Tabor)

County: Union (FIPS State/County: 45/087)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Union 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 Union 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Mount Tabor 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/