Do you know of Southgate ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Southgate, so we are uncertain whether Southgate is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Southgate would be found somewhere in Pierce County, Washington.

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 Southgate ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Southgate.

There is one other community in Washington which is also named Southgate.

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

Communities Located In Washington ...
- Thurston 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 Washington community of Southgate [Thurston County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Southgate [Henry County].
- California
  - Santa Clara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Southgate [Santa Clara County].
- Florida
  - Sarasota County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Southgate [Sarasota County].
- Georgia
  - Dougherty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Southgate [Dougherty County].
  - Hall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Southgate [Hall County].
- Illinois
  - Cook 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 Illinois community of Southgate [Cook County].
  - Ogle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Southgate [Ogle County].
- Indiana
  - LaPorte 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 Southgate [LaPorte County].
- Kentucky
  - Campbell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Southgate [Campbell County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Southgate [Anne Arundel County].
  - Saint Mary's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Southgate [Saint Mary's County].
- Michigan
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Southgate [Wayne County].
- North Carolina
  - Craven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Southgate [Craven County].
  - Wake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Southgate [Wake County].
- Ohio
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Southgate [Clark County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Southgate.
- South Carolina
  - Lexington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Southgate [Lexington County].
  - Sumter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Southgate [Sumter County].
- Virginia
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Southgate [Montgomery County].

More Orphans in Pierce 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 Pierce County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Southgate 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.