Do you know of Nicholson ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1901 and closed in 1904.

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 Nicholson ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Nicholson.

Within Texas, the name Nicholson is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Nicholson [DeKalb County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Nicholson.
- Georgia
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Nicholson [Jackson County].
- Kentucky
  - Kenton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Nicholson [Kenton County].
- Michigan
  - Shiawassee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Nicholson [Shiawassee County].
- Mississippi
  - Hancock 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 Mississippi community of Nicholson [Hancock County].
  - Pearl River County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Nicholson [Pearl River County].
- Montana
  - Cascade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Nicholson [Cascade County].
- North Dakota
  - Sargent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Nicholson [Sargent County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Nicholson.
- Pennsylvania
  - Wyoming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Nicholson [Wyoming County].
- Wisconsin
  - Waupaca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Nicholson [Waupaca County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nicholson ...

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

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 Fannin 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 Fannin County.

Allens Point	Moore's Chapel

Bantam	Neut

Cotton	Ragsdale
	Root
Doniphan	Ruben

Frank	Taylorville
Fulp	Tuluip

Hillger	Valleycreek
Houghton
	Yew
Macrae

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 Nicholson 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/