Do you know of Black Water ???

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

Our sources for Black Water (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 Black Water other than they indicate that Black Water would be found somewhere in Hancock 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 Black Water ...

We found one communities that share the name Black Water.

Within Tennessee, the name Black Water is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Black Water in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Carolina
    • Surry County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Black Water [Surry County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Black Water ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Hancock 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 Hancock County.