When the county was organized in 1837 district 6 was the Belk area. Still is. At one time there were many little Post Offices. Belk was one of them. Probably for the last 100 years the Belk area has been on a rural route out of Smithville. In 1920 it was Route 9. That is about as long as I can remember. Belk was named for Mary Louise Belk who the wife of Nathan Wall. They ran a country store at a crossroads and when they put a Post Office in the store Nathan named it for his wife. Nathan was from that area and as Soldier in the Civil War he had married Mary Louise in Atlanta, She was from Marion Co. GA. Bob Census listing 10:50 AM 4/30/02 -0400, you wrote: >Which district is this listing for? Smithville is in the 9th. District. >The 6th. District is Belk. While District 6 may very well have been the Belk area, on the 1860 &1870 census, District 6 is listed only as District 6 with the P. O. as Smithville. Below is how it was listed at the top of the 1870 Census page Schedule 1.--Inhabitants in District No. 6, in the County of DeKalb, State of Tennessee, enumerated by me on the 18 day of August, 1870. Post Office: Smithville James M. Lee, Ass't Marshal. Can anyone on the list provide any further insight? --Marie B.