Do you know of Black Wolf ???

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

Our sources for Black Wolf (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 Black Wolf other than they indicate that Black Wolf would be found somewhere in Scott County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1880.

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 Wolf ...

We found three communities that share the name Black Wolf.

Within Tennessee, the name Black Wolf is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kansas
    • Ellsworth County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Black Wolf [Ellsworth County].
  • West Virginia
    • McDowell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Black Wolf [McDowell County].
  • Wisconsin
    • Winnebago County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Black Wolf [Winnebago County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Black Wolf ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Scott 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 Scott County.