Do you know of Saint Charles ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Charles. 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 Saint Charles.
Our sources for Saint Charles (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 Saint Charles other than they indicate that Saint Charles would be found somewhere in Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843 and closed in 1880.
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 Saint Charles ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Saint Charles.
There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Saint Charles.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 22 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Lafourche Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Saint Charles [Lafourche Parish].
- Lafourche Parish
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Arkansas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Saint Charles [Arkansas County].
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Saint Charles [Pulaski County].
- Colorado
- Pueblo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Saint Charles [Pueblo County].
- Georgia
- Coweta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Saint Charles [Coweta County].
- Idaho
- Bear Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Saint Charles [Bear Lake County].
- Illinois
- Kane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Charles [Kane County].
- Iowa
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Saint Charles [Madison County].
- Kansas
- Douglas 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 Kansas community of Saint Charles [Douglas County].
- Kentucky
- Hopkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Charles [Hopkins County].
- Maryland
- Charles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Saint Charles [Charles County].
- Michigan
- Saginaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Charles [Saginaw County].
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saint Charles [Winona County].
- Missouri
- Saint Charles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint Charles [Saint Charles County].
- Montana
- Meagher 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 Saint Charles [Meagher County].
- Nebraska
- Cuming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Saint Charles [Cuming County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Saint Charles.
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Charles [Butler County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Charles.
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Charles [Clarion County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Saint Charles.
- Quebec
- 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 Quebec community of Saint Charles.
- South Carolina
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Saint Charles [Lee County].
- Sumter 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 South Carolina community of Saint Charles [Sumter County].
- South Dakota
- Gregory County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Saint Charles [Gregory County].
- Virginia
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Saint Charles [Lee County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Charles ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Saint Charles:
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 Saint Charles - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Saint Charles was listed as Saint Charles Courthouse.
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Saint Charles was listed as Saint Charles Courthouse.
More Orphans in Saint Charles Parish ...
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 Saint Charles Parish.
| Allemands | |
| Orleans Junction | |
| Dugan | Ormond |
| Fallon | Pointe Cypress |
| La Place | Saint Peters |
| Le Sassier | |
| Louisa | Taylor |
| Moberly | Waterford Spur |
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 Saint Charles 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 parish. 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/ |