Do you know of House ???

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

Our sources for House (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 House other than they indicate that House would be found somewhere in Fort Bend County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1909 and closed  in 1921.

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 House ...

We found four communities that share the name House.

Within Texas, the name House is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Calhoun County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of House [Calhoun County].
  • Mississippi
    • Neshoba County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of House [Neshoba County].
  • New Mexico
    • Quay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of House [Quay County].
  • North Carolina
    • Pitt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of House [Pitt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for House ...

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

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 House - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for House.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 48/34976   (Place Name: House)

County: Fort Bend     (FIPS State/County: 48/157)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, House) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Fort Bend County ...

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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 Fort Bend County.