Do you know of Bison ???

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

Our sources for Bison (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bison other than they indicate that Bison would be found somewhere in Cocke County, Tennessee.

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 Bison ...

We found five communities that share the name Bison.

Within Tennessee, the name Bison is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kansas
    • Rush County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bison [Rush County].
  • Montana
    • Glacier County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Bison [Glacier County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Garfield County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bison [Garfield County].
  • South Dakota
    • Perkins County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bison [Perkins County].
  • West Virginia
    • Braxton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bison [Braxton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bison ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Cocke 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 Cocke County.