Do you know of Philo ???

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

Our sources for Philo (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 Philo other than they indicate that Philo would be found somewhere in Washington County, Maryland.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1903.

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 Philo ...

We found three communities that share the name Philo.

Within Maryland, the name Philo is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Mendocino County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Philo [Mendocino County].
  • Illinois
    • Champaign County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Philo [Champaign County].
  • Ohio
    • Muskingum County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Philo [Muskingum County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Philo ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Maryland (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Washington County ...

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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 Washington County.