Do you know of Edgefield ???

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

Our sources for Edgefield (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 Edgefield other than they indicate that Edgefield would be found somewhere in Davidson County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1895 and closed  in 1910.

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 Edgefield ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Edgefield.

There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Edgefield.

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

• Communities Located In Tennessee ...
  • Smith County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Edgefield [Smith County].
  • Sullivan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Edgefield [Sullivan County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Barbour County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edgefield [Barbour County].
    • Jackson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edgefield [Jackson County].
    • Mobile County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edgefield [Mobile County].
  • Louisiana
    • Red River Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Edgefield [Red River Parish].
  • Mississippi
    • Attala County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Edgefield [Attala County].
  • Ohio
    • Fayette County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Edgefield [Fayette County].
    • Stark County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Edgefield [Stark County].
  • South Carolina
    • Edgefield County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Edgefield [Edgefield County].
  • Virginia
    • Portsmouth City
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Edgefield [Portsmouth City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Edgefield ...

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

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Davidson 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 Davidson County.