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Do you know of Stevenson ???

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

Our sources for Stevenson (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 Stevenson other than they indicate that Stevenson would be found somewhere in Van Zandt County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1881.

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 Stevenson ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Stevenson.

Within Texas, the name Stevenson is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Stevenson [Jackson County].
    • Connecticut
      • Fairfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Stevenson [Fairfield County].
    • Indiana
      • Greene 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 Stevenson [Greene County].
      • Warrick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Stevenson [Warrick County].
    • Kansas
      • Barber 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 Stevenson [Barber County].
    • Kentucky
      • Breathitt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Stevenson [Breathitt County].
    • Louisiana
      • Morehouse Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Stevenson [Morehouse Parish].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Stevenson [Baltimore County].
    • Michigan
      • Ontonagon 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 Stevenson [Ontonagon County].
    • Minnesota
      • Saint Louis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Stevenson [Saint Louis County].
    • Nebraska
      • Buffalo 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 Nebraska community of Stevenson [Buffalo County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Stevenson.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bradford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stevenson [Bradford County].
    • Washington
      • Skamania County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Stevenson [Skamania County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Stevenson ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Van Zandt County ...

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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 Van Zandt County.

Barren Ridge 
BlaineLakeview Estates
Bolton 
Bright StarMartins Mills
 Monico
Cobb'sMorince
Corinth 
CreaglevilleOrio
 Owlet
Dale Crest 
DenmnaPalace
 Providence
Flatwood 
FriendshipRast
FultonRolling Oaks
  
HattonSava
Hayden 
 Towels
Johnstown 

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 Stevenson 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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