Do you know of South Fork ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Fork. 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 South Fork.

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

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 South Fork ...

We found 22 communities that share the name South Fork.

There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named South Fork.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Dyer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of South Fork [Dyer County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Fulton 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 Arkansas community of South Fork [Fulton County].
- California
  - Butte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of South Fork [Butte County].
  - Humboldt 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 California community of South Fork [Humboldt County].
  - Madera County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of South Fork [Madera County].
  - Mendocino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of South Fork [Mendocino County].
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of South Fork [Shasta County].
- Colorado
  - Rio Grande County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of South Fork [Rio Grande County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of South Fork [Hillsborough County].
- Kentucky
  - Breathitt 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 Kentucky community of South Fork [Breathitt County].
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of South Fork [Jackson County].
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of South Fork [Lincoln County].
  - Powell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of South Fork [Powell County].
- Missouri
  - Howell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of South Fork [Howell County].
- Montana
  - Flathead County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of South Fork [Flathead County].
  - Lewis and Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of South Fork [Lewis and Clark County].
- Nevada
  - Elko County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of South Fork [Elko County].
- North Carolina
  - Forsyth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of South Fork [Forsyth County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Cambria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of South Fork [Cambria County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of South Fork.
- Texas
  - Hidalgo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of South Fork [Hidalgo County].
  - Jim Hogg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of South Fork [Jim Hogg County].

More Orphans in Lake 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 Lake County.

Bass Landing	Markham

Darnall	Pulstown

Gronanville	Reelfoot

Footnotes ...

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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 South Fork 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.