Do you know of Coal Dale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Coal Dale. 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 Coal Dale.
Our sources for Coal Dale (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 Coal Dale other than they indicate that Coal Dale would be found somewhere in Muskingum County, Ohio.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1902.
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 Coal Dale ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Coal Dale.
There is one other community in Ohio which is also named Coal Dale.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Coal Dale [Perry County].
- Perry County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Coal Dale [Jefferson County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Coal Dale.
- Arkansas
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Coal Dale [Scott County].
- Colorado
- Fremont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Coal Dale [Fremont County].
- Kentucky
- Nevada
- Esmeralda County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Coal Dale [Esmeralda County].
- Pennsylvania
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Coal Dale [Bedford County].
- Centre County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Coal Dale [Centre County].
- Dauphin 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 Pennsylvania community of Coal Dale [Dauphin County].
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Coal Dale [Schuylkill County].
- West Virginia
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Coal Dale [Mercer County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Coal Dale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Coal Dale:
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 Coal Dale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
George#&160;F. Cram Map (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
More Orphans in Muskingum 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 Muskingum 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Coal Dale 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/ |