Do you know of Poplar Ridge ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Poplar Ridge. 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 Poplar Ridge.
We found mention of Poplar Ridge as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Obion County, Tennessee.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1830 and closed in 1847.
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 Poplar Ridge ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Poplar Ridge.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Poplar Ridge.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Dyer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Ridge [Dyer County].
- Dyer County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Madison County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Poplar Ridge [Madison County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Poplar Ridge [Marshall County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Poplar Ridge.
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Poplar Ridge [Craighead County].
- Illinois
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Poplar Ridge [Jackson County].
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Poplar Ridge [Will County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Poplar Ridge.
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Poplar Ridge [Anne Arundel County].
- New York
- Cayuga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Poplar Ridge [Cayuga County].
- North Carolina
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Ridge [Orange County].
- Ohio
- Darke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Poplar Ridge [Darke County].
- Virginia
- Chesapeake City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Poplar Ridge [Chesapeake City].
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Poplar Ridge [Frederick County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poplar Ridge ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Poplar Ridge:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Obion 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 Obion County.
| Central | Polk's Station |
| Inwood | Silver Top |
| South Reelfoot | |
| McAnna | |
| Troy Station |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Poplar Ridge 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/ |