Do you know of Ethel ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ethel. 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 Ethel.
Our sources for Ethel (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 Ethel other than they indicate that Ethel would be found somewhere in Pike County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1904.
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 Ethel ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Ethel.
Within Alabama, the name Ethel is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Arkansas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ethel [Arkansas County].
- Florida
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ethel [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ethel [Orange County].
- Kansas
- Coffey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ethel [Coffey County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- East Feliciana Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ethel [East Feliciana Parish].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ethel [Attala County].
- Missouri
- Macon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ethel [Macon County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pushmataha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Ethel [Pushmataha County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ethel.
- Tennessee
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ethel [Roane County].
- Texas
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ethel [Grayson County].
- Virginia
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ethel [Richmond County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ethel [Logan County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ethel ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ethel:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Ethel.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 01/24448 (Place Name: Ethel)
County: Pike (FIPS State/County: 01/109)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Ethel) 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 Pike 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 Pike County.
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 Ethel 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/ |