Do you know of Elton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elton. 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 Elton.
Our sources for Elton (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 Elton other than they indicate that Elton would be found somewhere in Geneva County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1901.
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 Elton ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Elton.
Within Alabama, the name Elton is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Toombs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Elton [Toombs County].
- Louisiana
- Jefferson Davis Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Elton [Jefferson Davis Parish].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Hinds County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Elton [Hinds County].
- Montana
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Elton [Park County].
- Nebraska
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Elton [Custer County].
- New Jersey
- Monmouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Elton [Monmouth County].
- New York
- Cattaraugus County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Elton [Cattaraugus County].
- Ohio
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Elton [Stark County].
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elton [Cambria County].
- Texas
- Dickens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elton [Dickens County].
- West Virginia
- Summers County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elton [Summers County].
- Wisconsin
- Langlade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Elton [Langlade County].
- Georgia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elton:
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 Elton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Geneva 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 Geneva County.
| Aetna | Milford |
| Amacus | |
| Noblin | |
| Devonia | |
| Pea | |
| Epsy | Pledger |
| Fleaming | Sanders |
| Gainer | Taylor |
| Tillman | |
| Light | |
| Watford | |
| Martha |
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 Elton 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/ |