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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Mountain City came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Mountain City in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mountain City. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Mountain City data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mountain City:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

Shell Oil Road Map for Tennessee (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Mountain City is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Mountain City in these Censuses: 2010-2000. See our Census Page for Mountain City for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Mountain City. See our Misc Page for Mountain City for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/