Do you know of Scotland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Scotland. 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 Scotland.
Our sources for Scotland (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 Scotland other than they indicate that Scotland would be found somewhere in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1903 and closed in 1908.
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 Scotland ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Scotland.
Within South Carolina, the name Scotland is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Scotland [Monroe County].
- Arkansas
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Scotland [San Bernardino County].
- Connecticut
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Scotland [Windham County].
- Florida
- Gadsden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Scotland [Gadsden County].
- Georgia
- Telfair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Scotland [Telfair County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Scotland [Greene County].
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Scotland [Plymouth County].
- Mississippi
- Yazoo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Scotland [Yazoo County].
- Missouri
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Scotland [Jasper County].
- New Hampshire
- Cheshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Scotland [Cheshire County].
- Ohio
- Geauga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Scotland [Geauga County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Scotland.
- Pennsylvania
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Scotland [Franklin County].
- South Dakota
- Bon Homme County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Scotland [Bon Homme County].
- Texas
- Archer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Scotland [Archer County].
- Virginia
- Surry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Scotland [Surry County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Scotland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Scotland:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield County.
| Cash's Depot | Manus |
| Cassidy | McCaskill |
| Cato | McKay |
| Chatham | Minden |
| Darlco | Newman |
| Douglaston | |
| Old Store | |
| Finley | Ousley |
| Griggs | Plains |
| Guess | |
| Guin | Quick |
| Irvington | Robeson |
| Laney | Seaboard Junction |
| Lavender | |
| Tasso |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Scotland 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |