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Do you know of Calef ???

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

Our sources for Calef (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 Calef other than they indicate that Calef would be found somewhere in Tarrant County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1886.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Calef ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Tarrant 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 Tarrant County.

Arlington HeightsMara
 Marine
Bear CreekMuriel
BethelMustang
Brambleton 
 North Fort Worth
Central 
 Oak Knoll
EnlessOaks
EnonOrme
  
GlencrestPolytechnic
  
Hart SpurRandol
HicksRichland Park
Hodge JunctionRiverside
Hodge 
 Saginaw Park
IonaScullyville
 Shady Oaks
JamestownSouth Fort Worth
 Sylvania
Lake Worth Village 
 Wedgewood

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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