Do you know of Shell Beach ???

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

Our sources for Shell Beach (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 Shell Beach other than they indicate that Shell Beach would be found somewhere in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1906.

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 Shell Beach ...

We found four communities that share the name Shell Beach.

There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Shell Beach.

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

• Communities Located In Louisiana ...
  • Saint Bernard Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Shell Beach [Saint Bernard Parish].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • San Luis Obispo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shell Beach [San Luis Obispo County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Plymouth County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Shell Beach [Plymouth County].
  • Ohio
    • Fairfield County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Shell Beach [Fairfield County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shell Beach ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Shell Beach - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Vermilion Parish ...

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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 Vermilion Parish.