Do you know of Cartersville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cartersville. 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 Cartersville.
We found mention of Cartersville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Parker County, Texas.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1888.
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 Cartersville ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Cartersville.
Within Texas, the name Cartersville is unique.
Beyond Texas, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cartersville [DeKalb County].
- Georgia
- Bartow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cartersville [Bartow County].
- Iowa
- Cerro Gordo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cartersville [Cerro Gordo County].
- Kentucky
- Garrard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cartersville [Garrard County].
- Mississippi
- Tishomingo 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 Mississippi community of Cartersville [Tishomingo County].
- Montana
- Rosebud County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cartersville [Rosebud County].
- North Carolina
- Duplin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cartersville [Duplin County].
- Ohio
- Summit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cartersville [Summit County].
- Oklahoma
- Haskell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cartersville [Haskell County].
- South Carolina
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cartersville [Florence County].
- Tennessee
- Hawkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cartersville [Hawkins County].
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cartersville [Maury County].
- Virginia
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cartersville [Cumberland County].
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cartersville [Pittsylvania County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cartersville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cartersville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Parker 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 Parker County.
| Balch | |
| Bluff Springs | Poe Prairie |
| France | Rayville |
| Rock Creek | |
| Hensley | |
| Hiner | Slover |
| Lakota | Toto |
| Lambert | |
| Veal Station | |
| Oak Ridge | Veal's Station |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Cartersville 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/ |