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Do you know of Leighs Chapel ???

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

Our sources for Leighs Chapel (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 Leighs Chapel other than they indicate that Leighs Chapel would be found somewhere in Tipton County, Tennessee.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leighs Chapel ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Leighs Chapel - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Leighs Chapel.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 47/41680   (Place Name: Leighs Chapel)

County: Tipton     (FIPS State/County: 47/167)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Leighs Chapel) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Tipton 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 Tipton County.

AlmiraPhelan
 Poplar Grove
Batesville 
BloomingtonReed Lakes
 Reverie
CastoriaRichardson
 Richardson's Landing
Gainsville 
GiltedgeSimonton
Gin House LakeSouth Covington
  
IdaUnion Hill
 Uriel
Mount Zion 
MunchWalts
 Wilkins
Oak GroveWright
  

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.









 

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