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Do you know of Three Forks ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Three Forks. 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 Three Forks.

Our sources for Three Forks (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Three Forks other than they indicate that Three Forks would be found somewhere in Wilson County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1831 and closed  in 1881.

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 Three Forks ...

We found 29 communities that share the name Three Forks.

There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Three Forks.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 28 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Three Forks [Franklin County].
    • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Three Forks [Scott County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Lauderdale County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Three Forks [Lauderdale County].
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Three Forks [Madison County].
      • Tuscaloosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Three Forks [Tuscaloosa County].
    • Arizona
      • Apache County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Three Forks [Apache County].
    • Arkansas
      • Crittenden County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Three Forks [Crittenden County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Three Forks.
    • Colorado
      • Conejos County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Three Forks [Conejos County].
    • Georgia
      • Fannin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Three Forks [Fannin County].
      • Rabun County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Three Forks [Rabun County].
    • Idaho
      • Owyhee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Three Forks [Owyhee County].
    • Kentucky
      • Garrard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Three Forks [Garrard County].
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Three Forks [Warren County].
    • Montana
      • Cascade County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Three Forks [Cascade County].
      • Flathead County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Three Forks [Flathead County].
      • Gallatin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Three Forks [Gallatin County].
    • New Mexico
      • Eddy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Three Forks [Eddy County].
    • North Carolina
      • Swain County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Three Forks [Swain County].
    • Ohio
      • Noble County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Three Forks [Noble County].
    • Oregon
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Three Forks [Grant County].
    • Utah
      • Garfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Three Forks [Garfield County].
      • Utah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Three Forks [Utah County].
      • Wasatch County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Three Forks [Wasatch County].
    • Virginia
      • Campbell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Three Forks [Campbell County].
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Three Forks [Scott County].
    • West Virginia
      • Logan 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 West Virginia community of Three Forks [Logan County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Three Forks [Carbon County].
      • Uinta County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Three Forks [Uinta County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Three Forks ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Three Forks:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

More Orphans in  Wilson County ...

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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 Wilson County.

AustinMcCulloch
 Moxie
Blair Lane 
BuhlerNelson Hill
  
CampertonPartlow
Caruther'sPonville
Catamount 
 Rives
Halifax 
HattonvilleSilver Spring Station
HaywoodSimmons' Bluff
 Slatesville
LinnStringtown
Lockport 
 Wilford

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 Three Forks 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/









 

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