Do you know of Holly ???

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

We found mention of Holly as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Smith County, Texas.

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.

Communities Also Named Holly ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Holly.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Holly.

Beyond Texas, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Texas ...
- Houston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Holly [Houston County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Prowers County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Holly [Prowers County].
- Louisiana
  - De Soto Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Holly [De Soto Parish].
- Michigan
  - Oakland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Holly [Oakland County].
- Nebraska
  - Sheridan 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 Nebraska community of Holly [Sheridan County].
- North Carolina
  - Rutherford 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 North Carolina community of Holly [Rutherford County].
- Ohio
  - Columbiana 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 Ohio community of Holly [Columbiana County].
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Holly [Tuscarawas County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Holly.
- Tennessee
  - Coffee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Holly [Coffee County].
- Virginia
  - Chesterfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Holly [Chesterfield County].
- Washington
  - Kitsap County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Holly [Kitsap County].
- West Virginia
  - Braxton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Holly [Braxton County].
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Holly [Kanawha County].
- Wyoming
  - Goshen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Holly [Goshen County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Holly ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Smith 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 Smith County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Holly 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.