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Do you know of Steele ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Steele. 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 Steele.

Our sources for Steele (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 Steele other than they indicate that Steele would be found somewhere in Morgan County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 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 Steele ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Steele.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Steele.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Kentucky ...
    • Pike 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 Kentucky community of Steele [Pike County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Saint Clair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Steele [Saint Clair County].
    • Arkansas
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Steele [Washington County].
    • California
      • San Luis Obispo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Steele [San Luis Obispo County].
    • Illinois
      • Will County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Steele [Will County].
    • Indiana
      • Adams 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 Indiana community of Steele [Adams County].
    • Mississippi
      • Attala County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Steele [Attala County].
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Steele [Scott County].
    • Missouri
      • Pemiscot County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Steele [Pemiscot County].
    • Montana
      • Chouteau 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 Montana community of Steele [Chouteau County].
    • North Dakota
      • Kidder County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Steele [Kidder County].
    • Ohio
      • Fairfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Steele [Fairfield County].
    • Tennessee
      • Montgomery 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 Tennessee community of Steele [Montgomery County].
    • Virginia
      • Alleghany 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 Virginia community of Steele [Alleghany County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Steele ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Steele:

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 Steele - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Morgan 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 Morgan County.

BangorJeston
Burg 
BuskirkLick Branch
 Loveland
Demond 
DemundMorgan
Dorsie 
 Nannie
Elam 
ElderOmer
  
GoodseyParagon
  
Head Of PaintSaltillo
Henry 
 Wells Hill
InskoWells
 Williams

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 Steele 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/









 

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