Do you know of Powers ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Powers. 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 Powers.
Our sources for Powers (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 Powers other than they indicate that Powers would be found somewhere in Cochise County, Arizona.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1891.
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 Powers ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Powers.
Within Arizona, the name Powers is unique.
Beyond Arizona, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Powers [Hale County].
- Arkansas
- Hempstead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Powers [Hempstead County].
- Johnson 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 Arkansas community of Powers [Johnson County].
- Indiana
- Jay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Powers [Jay County].
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Michigan
- Menominee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Powers [Menominee County].
- Mississippi
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Powers [Jones County].
- Montana
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Powers [Gallatin County].
- North Carolina
- Robeson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Powers [Robeson County].
- Ohio
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Powers [Fulton County].
- Oklahoma
- Canadian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Powers [Canadian County].
- Oregon
- Coos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Powers [Coos County].
- Tennessee
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Powers [Fayette County].
- Washington
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Powers [Columbia County].
- West Virginia
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Powers [Wood County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Powers ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Powers:
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 Powers - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Cochise 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 Cochise 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Powers 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/ |