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Do you know of Yellow Sulphur ???

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

Our sources for Yellow Sulphur (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 Yellow Sulphur other than they indicate that Yellow Sulphur would be found somewhere in Blount County, Tennessee.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1860 and closed  in 1909.

Communities Also Named Yellow Sulphur ...

We found one communities that share the name Yellow Sulphur.

Within Tennessee, the name Yellow Sulphur is unique.

Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Yellow Sulphur in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Yellow Sulphur [Montgomery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Yellow Sulphur ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Yellow Sulphur - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Blount 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 Blount County.

Big GullyNichols
Blount Hills 
 Overlook
Cades Cove 
CornPlum Grove
  
East Miller's CoveRasar
EllisworthRega
  
FriendshipSouth Rockford
  
Gamble's StoreTang
 Tuckaleechee Cove
HebronvilleTut
Houk 
 Uceba
McKinley 
MiserWaters
 West Miller Cove

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>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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