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Do you know of Riggs ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Riggs, so we are uncertain whether Riggs is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Riggs would be found somewhere in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Communities Also Named Riggs ...

We found ten communities that share the name Riggs.

Within Tennessee, the name Riggs is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Craighead County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Riggs [Craighead County].
    • California
      • San Bernardino County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Riggs [San Bernardino County].
    • Iowa
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Riggs [Clinton County].
    • Kentucky
      • Greenup County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Riggs [Greenup County].
    • Missouri
      • Boone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Riggs [Boone County].
    • Nebraska
      • Sheridan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Riggs [Sheridan County].
    • Ohio
      • Ashtabula County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Riggs [Ashtabula County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bradford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Riggs [Bradford County].
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Riggs [Greene County].
    • Virginia
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Riggs [Scott County].

More Orphans in  Williamson 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 Williamson County.

Amos 
 Mallorys
BarrenMount Nebo
Basin Spring 
Battlefield JunctionOwen Hill
Battlefield 
Bending ChestnutPaschall
BonbrookPinckney
  
Camp MarymountReed's Store
CarlRock Hill
Christiana 
Cross KeysShaw
 South Harpeth
Ewell's 
 Thompsons
Fernville 
 Union Valley
Good Spring 
 Wilco
Jingo 

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>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.
<3>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Riggs 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.









 

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