Do you know of Collinsville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Collinsville. 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 Collinsville.
Our sources for Collinsville (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 Collinsville other than they indicate that Collinsville would be found somewhere in Montgomery County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 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 Collinsville ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Collinsville.
Within Tennessee, the name Collinsville is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Collinsville [DeKalb County].
- California
- Solano County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Collinsville [Solano County].
- Connecticut
- Hartford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Collinsville [Hartford County].
- Georgia
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Collinsville [DeKalb County].
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Collinsville [Madison County].
- Kansas
- Cherokee 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 Collinsville [Cherokee County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Collinsville [Middlesex County].
- Mississippi
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Collinsville [Lauderdale County].
- New Jersey
- Morris 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 New Jersey community of Collinsville [Morris County].
- New Mexico
- Quay County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Collinsville [Quay County].
- New York
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Collinsville [Lewis County].
- North Carolina
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Collinsville [Polk County].
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Collinsville [Butler County].
- Oklahoma
- Rogers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Collinsville [Rogers County].
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Collinsville [York County].
- Texas
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Collinsville [Grayson County].
- Virginia
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Collinsville [Frederick County].
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Collinsville [Henry County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Collinsville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Collinsville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Collinsville 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/ |