Do you know of Fulton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fulton. 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 Fulton.
Our sources for Fulton (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 Fulton other than they indicate that Fulton would be found somewhere in Van Zandt County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1905.
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 Fulton ...
We found 44 communities that share the name Fulton.
There is one other community in Texas which is also named Fulton.
Beyond Texas, we know of another 43 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 43 communities, 42 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Aransas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fulton [Aransas County].
- Aransas County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Fulton [Clarke County].
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Hempstead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fulton [Hempstead County].
- California
- Sonoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fulton [Sonoma County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Whiteside County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fulton [Whiteside County].
- Indiana
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fulton [Fulton County].
- Iowa
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Fulton [Jackson County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Fulton [Fulton County].
- Louisiana
- Beauregard Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Fulton [Beauregard Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Fulton.
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Itawamba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Fulton [Itawamba County].
- Missouri
- Callaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fulton [Callaway County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Fulton [Colfax County].
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fulton [Oswego County].
- North Carolina
- Davie County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fulton [Davie County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Fulton.
- Oregon
- Multnomah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fulton [Multnomah County].
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fulton [Umatilla County].
- Washington 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 Oregon community of Fulton [Washington County].
- Pennsylvania
- Northumberland 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 Pennsylvania community of Fulton [Northumberland County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fulton [Westmoreland County].
- South Carolina
- Clarendon 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 South Carolina community of Fulton [Clarendon County].
- Marlboro County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Fulton [Marlboro County].
- South Dakota
- Hanson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Fulton [Hanson County].
- Tennessee
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fulton [Lauderdale County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Ohio County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fulton [Ohio County].
- Wisconsin
- Rock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Fulton [Rock County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fulton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fulton:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Van Zandt 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 Van Zandt County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Fulton 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/ |