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Do you know of Thornton Heights ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Thornton Heights, so we are uncertain whether Thornton Heights 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 Thornton Heights would be found somewhere in Knox County, Tennessee.

Communities Also Named Thornton Heights ...

We found three communities that share the name Thornton Heights.

Within Tennessee, the name Thornton Heights is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Bibb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Thornton Heights [Bibb County].
    • Maine
      • Cumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Thornton Heights [Cumberland County].
    • New York
      • Onondaga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Thornton Heights [Onondaga County].

More Orphans in  Knox 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 Knox County.

Adairs Creek 
 Kangaroo
Beaver RidgeKingsley
Bermuda 
Black Oak SummitLakemoor
Bruce'sLay
Bull RunLinde
 Little River
Campbell 
Caswell's StationMablr
ChotoMaloney Heights
ChumleaMaxwell
Church GroveMecklenburgh
Coffin 
CosterNast
Cowards 
CraigvilleOakwood
Crippen Gap 
 Powell's Station
DedieProgressive
 Progressville
Eppsville 
 Richland
FlennikenRita
Floyd'sRodelm
FordRoseberry
French 
 Snoderly
Gap CreekSwan
Godfry 
GrangevilleTenco
Green AcresTipton
 Tuckahoe
Harbison 
Hardin ValleyWarcer
HerculesWesthaven Village
Highlandview 

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.









 

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