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Do you know of Mount Pisgah ???

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

Our sources for Mount Pisgah (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 Mount Pisgah other than they indicate that Mount Pisgah would be found somewhere in Clay County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1878.

Communities Also Named Mount Pisgah ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Mount Pisgah.

There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Mount Pisgah.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • White County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Pisgah [White County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • White County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mount Pisgah [White County].
    • Georgia
      • Catoosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mount Pisgah [Catoosa County].
    • Indiana
      • LaGrange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mount Pisgah [LaGrange County].
    • Iowa
      • Harrison County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Mount Pisgah [Harrison County].
    • Kentucky
      • Wayne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mount Pisgah [Wayne County].
    • Maine
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Mount Pisgah [Lincoln County].
    • Maryland
      • Charles County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mount Pisgah [Charles County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Mount Pisgah.
    • New Jersey
      • Sussex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Mount Pisgah [Sussex County].
    • North Carolina
      • Alexander County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Pisgah [Alexander County].
      • Rutherford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Pisgah [Rutherford County].
    • Ohio
      • Clermont County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Pisgah [Clermont County].
    • South Carolina
      • Berkeley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mount Pisgah [Berkeley County].
      • Kershaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mount Pisgah [Kershaw County].
    • Virginia
      • Augusta County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mount Pisgah [Augusta County].
    • West Virginia
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mount Pisgah [Grant County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Pisgah ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Clay 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 Clay County.

Bateville 
 Maple Grove
Dale HollowMemorial
 Mouth of Wolf
Exeda 
 Overstreets
Gregoryville 
 Pleasant Hill
Henry 
HixSpeck
 Spivey
Lodi 

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>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 Mount Pisgah 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.
<3>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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