Do you know of Ada (aka 'Dakota Station') ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ada. 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 Ada.
Our sources for Ada (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Ada other than they indicate that Ada would be found somewhere in Dooly County, Georgia.
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 Ada ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Ada.
Within Georgia, the name Ada is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
In addition to the above occurrences of Ada, we know of seven communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ada [Montgomery County].
- Arkansas
- Conway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ada [Conway County].
- Kansas
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ada [Ottawa County].
- Louisiana
- Bienville Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ada [Bienville Parish].
- Grant Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Ada [Grant Parish].
- Michigan
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ada [Kent County].
- Minnesota
- Norman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ada [Norman County].
- Ohio
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ada [Hardin County].
- Oklahoma
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Ada [Pontotoc County].
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Ada [Lane County].
- South Carolina
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ada [Union County].
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ada [Montgomery County].
- Virginia
- Fauquier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ada [Fauquier County].
- West Virginia
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ada [Mercer County].
- Wisconsin
- Sheboygan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ada [Sheboygan County].
- Alabama
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- Spain
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- Ghana
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- Croatia
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- India
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- Japan
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- Serbia
- We haven't found the location of this Ada
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ada ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ada:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ada - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Dooly 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 Dooly 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 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 Ada 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. |