Do you know of Huntersville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Huntersville. 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 Huntersville.<1>
We found mention of Huntersville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1872.
Communities Also Named Huntersville ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Huntersville.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Huntersville.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Huntersville [Madison County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Huntersville [Franklin County].
- Kentucky
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Huntersville [Clinton County].
- Maryland
- Saint Mary's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Huntersville [Saint Mary's County].
- Minnesota
- Wadena County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Huntersville [Wadena County].
- New York
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Huntersville [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Huntersville [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Huntersville [Hardin County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lycoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Huntersville [Lycoming County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Huntersville [Greenville County].
- Virginia
- Norfolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Huntersville [Norfolk City].
- Suffolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Huntersville [Suffolk City].
- West Virginia
- Pocahontas County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Huntersville [Pocahontas County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Huntersville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Huntersville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Rutherford 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 Rutherford County.
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> | 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. |
<3> | 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 Huntersville 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. |
<4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |