Do you know of Kelso ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kelso. 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 Kelso.
Our sources for Kelso (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 Kelso other than they indicate that Kelso would be found somewhere in Howard County, Nebraska.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1894.
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 Kelso ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Kelso.
There is one other community in Nebraska which is also named Kelso.
Beyond Nebraska, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Kelso, we know of five communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Nebraska ...
- Hooker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Kelso [Hooker County].
- Hooker County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Desha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kelso [Desha County].
- California
- Fresno 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 California community of Kelso [Fresno County].
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Kelso [San Bernardino County].
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Dearborn 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 Indiana community of Kelso [Dearborn County].
- Huntington 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 Indiana community of Kelso [Huntington County].
- Kansas
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kelso [Morris County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Sharkey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Kelso [Sharkey County].
- Missouri
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kelso [Scott County].
- North Dakota
- Traill County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Kelso [Traill County].
- Oklahoma
- Craig County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Kelso [Craig County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Kelso.
- Oregon
- Clackamas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Kelso [Clackamas County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Kelso.
- Tennessee
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kelso [Lincoln County].
- Texas
- Deaf Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kelso [Deaf Smith County].
- Washington
- Cowlitz County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Kelso [Cowlitz County].
- Arkansas
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Australia
- - Tasmania
- We haven't found the location of this Kelso
- - New South Wales
- We haven't found the location of this Kelso
- - Queensland
- We haven't found the location of this Kelso
- New Zealand
- We haven't found the location of this Kelso
- South Africa
- We haven't found the location of this Kelso
- Australia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kelso ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kelso:
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 Kelso - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Howard 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 Howard County.
| Polander |
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 Kelso 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/ |