Do you know of Smyrna ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smyrna. 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 Smyrna.<1>
We found mention of Smyrna as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Barnwell County, South Carolina.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1861.
Communities Also Named Smyrna ...
We found 38 communities that share the name Smyrna.
There are two communities within South Carolina that are also named Smyrna.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 36 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Smyrna [Clark County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Smyrna [Howard County].
- Pope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Smyrna [Pope County].
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Smyrna [White County].
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Smyrna [Tulare County].
- Delaware
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Smyrna [Kent County].
- Florida
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Smyrna [Holmes County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Smyrna [Clarke County].
- Kentucky
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Smyrna [Jefferson County].
- Louisiana
- De Soto Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Smyrna [De Soto Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Smyrna [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
- Ionia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Smyrna [Ionia County].
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- Nuckolls County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Smyrna [Nuckolls County].
- New York
- Chenango County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Smyrna [Chenango County].
- North Carolina
- Carteret County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Smyrna [Carteret County].
- Ohio
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Smyrna [Harrison County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Smyrna [Lancaster County].
- Tennessee
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Smyrna [Carroll County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Smyrna [Marshall County].
- Pickett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Smyrna [Pickett County].
- Rutherford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Smyrna [Rutherford County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Smyrna [Warren County].
- Texas
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Smyrna [Cass County].
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Smyrna [Harrison County].
- Montague County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Smyrna [Montague County].
- Rains County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Smyrna [Rains County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Smyrna [Grant County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Smyrna ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Smyrna:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Barnwell 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 Barnwell County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Smyrna 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |