Do you know of Luther ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Luther. 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 Luther.
Our sources for Luther (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 Luther other than they indicate that Luther would be found somewhere in Briscoe County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1892.
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 Luther ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Luther.
There are two communities within Texas that are also named Luther.
Beyond Texas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Luther [Mason County].
- Indiana
- Whitley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Luther [Whitley County].
- Iowa
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Luther [Boone County].
- Kansas
- Morris 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 Kansas community of Luther [Morris County].
- Washington County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Luther [Washington County].
- Michigan
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Luther [Lake County].
- Mississippi
- Leake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Luther [Leake County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Luther [Carbon County].
- New York
- Rensselaer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Luther [Rensselaer County].
- North Carolina
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Luther [Buncombe County].
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Luther [Oklahoma County].
- Oregon
- Clackamas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Luther [Clackamas County].
- South Carolina
- Bamberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Luther [Bamberg County].
- Tennessee
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Luther [Hancock County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Luther ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Luther:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Luther - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Briscoe 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 Briscoe County.
| Beverly | |
| Milo | |
| Celtic | |
| Whiteley | |
| Edgin |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Luther 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/ |