Do you know of McKinley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about McKinley. 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 McKinley.
Our sources for McKinley (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 McKinley other than they indicate that McKinley would be found somewhere in Blount County, Tennessee.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1903.
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 McKinley ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name McKinley.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named McKinley.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of McKinley [Washington County].
- Washington County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Marengo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of McKinley [Marengo County].
- Illinois
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of McKinley [Washington County].
- Indiana
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of McKinley [Washington County].
- Kansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of McKinley [Washington County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of McKinley.
- Michigan
- Oscoda County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of McKinley [Oscoda County].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of McKinley [Saint Louis County].
- Missouri
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of McKinley [Lawrence County].
- New Mexico
- New York
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of McKinley [Montgomery County].
- Ohio
- Cuyahoga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of McKinley [Cuyahoga County].
- Oregon
- Coos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of McKinley [Coos County].
- Pennsylvania
- Virginia
- Augusta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of McKinley [Augusta County].
- West Virginia
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of McKinley [Wood County].
- Wisconsin
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of McKinley [Polk County].
- Wyoming
- Converse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of McKinley [Converse County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for McKinley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about McKinley:
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 McKinley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Blount 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 Blount 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 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 McKinley 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/ |