Do you know of Oakville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oakville. 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 Oakville.
Our sources for Oakville (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 Oakville other than they indicate that Oakville would be found somewhere in Barnes County, North Dakota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 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 Oakville ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Oakville.
Within North Dakota, the name Oakville is unique.
Beyond North Dakota, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Napa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Oakville [Napa County].
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Oakville [Litchfield County].
- Georgia
- Terrell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oakville [Terrell County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Oakville [Delaware County].
- Iowa
- Louisa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Oakville [Louisa County].
- Kentucky
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Oakville [Logan County].
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oakville [Plaquemines Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Oakville.
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Oakville [Monroe County].
- Missouri
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Oakville.
- New Jersey
- Atlantic County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Oakville [Atlantic County].
- New York
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Oakville [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oakville [Warren County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Oakville.
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Oakville [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oakville [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Live Oak County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Oakville [Live Oak County].
- Virginia
- Alexandria City
- 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 Oakville [Alexandria City].
- Appomattox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oakville [Appomattox County].
- Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Oakville [Grays Harbor County].
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oakville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oakville:
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 Oakville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Barnes 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 Barnes County.
| Alderman | |
| Algeo | Hobart |
| Alta | |
| Lanona | |
| Barnes | |
| Booth | Minnie Lake |
| Clive | Svea |
| Svenby | |
| Ellsbury | |
| Uxbridge | |
| Frazier |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Oakville 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/ |