Do you know of Upper Clinch ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Upper Clinch. 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 Upper Clinch.<1>
Our sources for Upper Clinch (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Upper Clinch other than they indicate that Upper Clinch would be found somewhere in Hancock County, Tennessee.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Upper Clinch ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Upper Clinch:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Upper Clinch - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Hancock 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 Hancock County.
| Bertha | Meadowfield |
| Black Water | Mitchburg |
| Brays | Mulberry Gap |
| Camilla | New Sedalia |
| Clinch | |
| Copper Ridge | Parkey |
| Datura | Shortburgh |
| Stony Gap | |
| Fenton | |
| Flat Gap | War Creek |
| Foxbranch | War Ridge |
| Leaman | Xerxes |
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. |