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Do you know of Motley ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1906.

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 Motley ...

We found eight communities that share the name Motley.

Within Texas, the name Motley is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Clay County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Motley [Clay County].
      • Tallapoosa 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 Alabama community of Motley [Tallapoosa County].
    • Kentucky
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Motley [Pike County].
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Motley [Warren County].
    • Michigan
      • Houghton 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 Michigan community of Motley [Houghton County].
    • Minnesota
      • Morrison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Motley [Morrison County].
    • Missouri
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Motley [Jasper County].
    • Virginia
      • Pittsylvania County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Motley [Pittsylvania County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Motley ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Rusk 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 Rusk County.

AlmaHendricks
Anadarco 
AntiochIron Mountain
  
BelleviewLake Cherokee
BurnsLocklin
  
CarlisleNorfolk
Cherokee 
Cotton PlantOakland
Crim 
 Patrich
EulaliePepper
 Poindexter
FlanaganPylas
Fussel 
FussellReed's
 Robinson's
Gould 
 San Cosme
HarmonyStevens

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Motley 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/









 

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