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Do you know of Heltonville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Heltonville. 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 Heltonville.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1900.

Communities Also Named Heltonville ...

We found one communities that share the name Heltonville.

Within Tennessee, the name Heltonville is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Heltonville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Heltonville [Lawrence County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Heltonville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Grainger 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 Grainger County.

Ball PointNarrow Valley
Black Fox 
BlackwellOlcott
Bull RunOrrsville
  
Central PointPowder Spring Gap
Corrytown 
 Red Hill
DoyalRed House
DutchRedwood
 Richlandville
Fennel StoreRocky Spring
  
HargusShelton's Ford
 Spring House
Indian CaveStatia
Indian RidgeSunrise
  
JarmineWesterville
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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