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Do you know of Tourison ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Tourison. 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 Tourison.<1>

We found mention of Tourison as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fayette County, West Virginia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1927 and closed  in 1929.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tourison ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Tourison.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/80788   (Place Name: Tourison)

County: Fayette     (FIPS State/County: 54/019)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Tourison) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Fayette 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 Fayette County.

BaysLeb Long
Beards JunctionLoup Creek
Beech Junction 
BeetsMill Creek Junction
Blue HoleMinersville
BraggvilleMontrado
Bridge JunctionMount Ida
Brownwood 
 Naoma
CarenNuttall
Carter 
CentralOakwood
CoitOneal
Collinsville 
 Paintsville
Deepwater BridgePennbrooke
DiamondPrice Hill Junction
  
EchoRed Star
EdgewaterRich Creek Junction
Elkridge JunctionRiver View
ElmoRocky Hill
  
Fallsview - CharltonSewell Depot
Fayette StationShoo Fly
Fort DefianceSiltix
FrederickSilver Gap
 Slater's
Garden GroundSouth Side Junction
GentryStony
Glade Creek JunctionStretchner's Neck
GlencoeStuart
Green SidingSugar Creek Junction
Greentown 
 Top Siding
HawleyTunnel
Hemlock Hollow 
HerbertonUnion
  
Kilsyth JunctionVaco Junction
KoontzVeasey
Krise 
 Wood

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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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