Do you know of Lamar ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lamar. 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 Lamar.
Our sources for Lamar (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 Lamar other than they indicate that Lamar would be found somewhere in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1907.
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 Lamar ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Lamar.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Lamar.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lamar [Randolph County].
- Arkansas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lamar [Johnson County].
- Colorado
- Prowers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lamar [Prowers County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Spencer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lamar [Spencer County].
- Kansas
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lamar [Ottawa County].
- Louisiana
- Franklin Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lamar [Franklin Parish].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lamar [Benton County].
- Missouri
- Barton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lamar [Barton County].
- Nebraska
- Chase County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lamar [Chase County].
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Hughes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lamar [Hughes County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lamar [Clinton County].
- South Carolina
- Darlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lamar [Darlington County].
- Texas
- Washington
- Walla Walla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lamar [Walla Walla County].
- West Virginia
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lamar [Mercer County].
- Wisconsin
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lamar [Polk County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lamar ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lamar:
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 Lamar - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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> | 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 Lamar 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |