Do you know of Smith ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smith. 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 Smith.
Our sources for Smith (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 Smith other than they indicate that Smith would be found somewhere in Upshur County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1897 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 Smith ...
We found 36 communities that share the name Smith.
There is one other community in Texas which is also named Smith.
Beyond Texas, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 35 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Smith [Bell County].
- Bell County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Smith.
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Smith [Union County].
- California
- Delaware
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Smith [Hillsborough County].
- Taylor 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 Florida community of Smith [Taylor County].
- Indiana
- Floyd 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 Indiana community of Smith [Floyd County].
- Knox 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 Indiana community of Smith [Knox County].
- LaPorte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Smith [LaPorte County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Winn Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Smith [Winn Parish].
- Maryland
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Smith [Frederick County].
- Michigan
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Smith [Saint Clair County].
- Mississippi
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Smith [Covington County].
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Smith [Lauderdale County].
- Neshoba 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 Smith [Neshoba County].
- Missouri
- Lincoln 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 Missouri community of Smith [Lincoln County].
- Webster 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 Missouri community of Smith [Webster County].
- Nevada
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Smith [Lyon County].
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Brunswick 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 North Carolina community of Smith [Brunswick County].
- Rowan County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Smith [Rowan County].
- Stokes 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 North Carolina community of Smith [Stokes County].
- Ohio
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Smith [Muskingum County].
- Pennsylvania
- Indiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Smith [Indiana County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Smith [Henderson County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Smith [Davis County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Smith ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Smith:
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 Upshur 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 Upshur County.
| Calloway | Omega |
| Fazenda | Pinnacle |
| Pleasant Grove | |
| Horace | |
| Smith's Mill | |
| Lone Mountain | Suffolk |
| Lowe | Syringa |
| McPeek | Teague |
| Neal's | Wallace Chapel |
| Noah | Willow Oak |
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 Smith 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/ |