Do you know of Doss ???

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

Our sources for Doss (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 Doss other than they indicate that Doss would be found somewhere in Clay County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1893.

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 Doss ...

We found seven communities that share the name Doss.

There are two communities within Texas that are also named Doss.

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

• Communities Located In Texas ...
  • Cass County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Doss [Cass County].
  • Gillespie County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Doss [Gillespie County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Craighead County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Doss [Craighead County].
  • Louisiana
    • Morehouse Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Doss [Morehouse Parish].
  • Missouri
    • Dent County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Doss [Dent County].
  • Nebraska
    • Dawson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Doss [Dawson County].
  • New Mexico
    • Roosevelt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Doss [Roosevelt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Doss ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Doss - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

More Orphans in  Clay 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 Clay County.