Do you know of Flatwoods ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Flatwoods. 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 Flatwoods.
Our sources for Flatwoods (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Flatwoods other than they indicate that Flatwoods would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Tennessee.
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 Flatwoods ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Flatwoods.
There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Flatwoods.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Flatwoods [Colbert County].
- Lowndes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Flatwoods [Lowndes County].
- Tuscaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Flatwoods [Tuscaloosa County].
- Arkansas
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Flatwoods [Newton County].
- California
- Shasta County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Flatwoods [Shasta County].
- Illinois
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Flatwoods [Johnson County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Flatwoods [Rapides Parish].
- Missouri
- Ripley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Flatwoods [Ripley County].
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Flatwoods [Fayette County].
- Texas
- Eastland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Flatwoods [Eastland County].
- Virginia
- Botetourt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Flatwoods [Botetourt County].
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Flatwoods [Russell County].
- Scott 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 Flatwoods [Scott County].
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Flatwoods [Wise County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Flatwoods ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Flatwoods:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Flatwoods - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Wayne 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 Wayne County.
| Clifton City | Olds |
| Factors Fork | Patriot |
| Factory | |
| Forty Eight | Rocky Knoll |
| Little Hope | Sims |
| Mannie | Three Churches |
| McClamerys Stand | |
| Wayne Furnace |
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 Flatwoods 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. |