Do you know of Empire ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Empire. 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 Empire.
Our sources for Empire (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 Empire other than they indicate that Empire would be found somewhere in Lewis and Clark County, Montana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1895.
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 Empire ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Empire.
Within Montana, the name Empire is unique.
Beyond Montana, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 33 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Empire [Walker County].
- Arkansas
- Chicot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Empire [Chicot County].
- California
- Contra Costa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Empire [Contra Costa County].
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Empire [Mendocino County].
- Sierra County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Empire [Sierra County].
- Stanislaus County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Empire [Stanislaus County].
- Colorado
- Clear Creek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Empire [Clear Creek County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Empire [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Dodge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Empire [Dodge County].
- Illinois
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Empire [McLean County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Empire [Christian County].
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Empire [Plaquemines Parish].
- Maine
- Androscoggin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Empire [Androscoggin County].
- Michigan
- Leelanau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Empire [Leelanau County].
- Minnesota
- Dakota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Empire [Dakota County].
- Mississippi
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Empire [Washington County].
- Missouri
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Empire [Butler County].
- Jasper 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 Missouri community of Empire [Jasper County].
- Nebraska
- Fillmore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Empire [Fillmore County].
- Nevada
- North Carolina
- Iredell 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 North Carolina community of Empire [Iredell County].
- Randolph County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Empire [Randolph County].
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Empire [Jefferson County].
- Oklahoma
- Empire #
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Empire.
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Coos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Empire [Coos County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Empire [Butte County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha 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 West Virginia community of Empire [Kanawha County].
- Mineral County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Empire [Mineral County].
- Wayne County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Empire [Wayne County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Empire ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Empire:
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 Empire - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Lewis and Clark 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 Lewis and Clark 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 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 Empire 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/ |