Do you know of Norfolk ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Norfolk. 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 Norfolk.
Our sources for Norfolk (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 Norfolk other than they indicate that Norfolk would be found somewhere in Rusk County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1892 and closed in 1903.
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 Norfolk ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Norfolk.
Within Texas, the name Norfolk is unique.
Beyond Texas, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Larimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Norfolk [Larimer County].
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Norfolk [Litchfield County].
- Kansas
- Massachusetts
- Norfolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Norfolk [Norfolk County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- DeSoto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Norfolk [DeSoto County].
- Missouri
- Mississippi County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Norfolk [Mississippi County].
- Nebraska
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Norfolk [Madison County].
- New York
- Saint Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Norfolk [Saint Lawrence County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Oregon
- South Dakota
- Virginia
- Norfolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Norfolk [Norfolk City].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Norfolk ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Norfolk:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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 Norfolk.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 48/51804 (Place Name: Norfolk (RR name for New London))
County: Rusk (FIPS State/County: 48/401)
Class: X3
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.
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 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 Norfolk 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/ |