Do you know of Crab Orchard ???

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

Our sources for Crab Orchard (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 Crab Orchard other than they indicate that Crab Orchard would be found somewhere in Carter County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1883.

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 Crab Orchard ...

We found eight communities that share the name Crab Orchard.

There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Crab Orchard.

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

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Crab Orchard [Cumberland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Williamson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Crab Orchard [Williamson County].
- Kentucky
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Crab Orchard [Lincoln County].
- Missouri
  - Ray 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 Missouri community of Crab Orchard [Ray County].
- Nebraska
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Crab Orchard [Johnson County].
- Virginia
  - Lee 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 Virginia community of Crab Orchard [Lee County].
  - Wise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Crab Orchard [Wise County].
- West Virginia
  - Raleigh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Crab Orchard [Raleigh County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crab Orchard ...

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

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 Crab Orchard - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in Carter 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 Carter County.

Central Heights	Port Rayon
Coal Chute
	Rip Shin
Dennis Cove
Dry Creek	South Watauga
	Stony Creek
Gladeland
	Turkeytown
Happy Valley
Heatoncreek	Watauga Station
	Watuaga Valley
Pardee Point

Footnotes ...

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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 Crab Orchard 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/