Do you know of Hansford ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1893.

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 Hansford ...

We found four communities that share the name Hansford.

Within Tennessee, the name Hansford is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Rockcastle County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hansford [Rockcastle County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Hansford.
  • Texas
    • Hansford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hansford [Hansford County].
  • West Virginia
    • Kanawha County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hansford [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hansford ...

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

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 Hansford - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale County.