Do you know of Carmel ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carmel. 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 Carmel.
Our sources for Carmel (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 Carmel other than they indicate that Carmel would be found somewhere in Montgomery County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1904.
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 Carmel ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Carmel.
Within Tennessee, the name Carmel is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 21 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Bradley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Carmel [Bradley County].
- Chicot County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Carmel [Chicot County].
- Georgia
- Meriwether County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Carmel [Meriwether County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Sioux County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Carmel [Sioux County].
- Kansas
- Cloud County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carmel [Cloud County].
- Crawford County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carmel [Crawford County].
- Stafford County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carmel [Stafford County].
- Louisiana
- De Soto Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Carmel [De Soto Parish].
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Carmel [Penobscot County].
- Minnesota
- Beltrami County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Carmel [Beltrami County].
- New Jersey
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Carmel [Cumberland County].
- New York
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Carmel [Putnam County].
- North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carmel [Mecklenburg County].
- Montgomery County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Carmel [Montgomery County].
- Ohio
- Highland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Carmel [Highland County].
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Carmel.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Carmel.
- South Carolina
- Virginia
- Shenandoah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Carmel [Shenandoah County].
- West Virginia
- Preston County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Carmel [Preston County].
- Wisconsin
- Waupaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Carmel [Waupaca County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carmel ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Carmel:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Carmel - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Carmel 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/ |