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Do you know of Limbs ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1903.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Limbs ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Limbs.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 47/42540   (Place Name: Limbs)

County: Weakley     (FIPS State/County: 47/183)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Limbs) 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  Weakley 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 Weakley County.

Elm Tree 
 Peck
Gardnersville 
Gleeson StationRalston's Station
 Rinda
Hillside 
 Salem
Locust Grove 
 Unity
Morena 
Mount WarrenWillingham
 Winston
Old Hickory 

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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