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Do you know of Ira ???

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

Our sources for Ira (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 Ira other than they indicate that Ira would be found somewhere in Red River County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1896.

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 Ira ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Ira.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Ira.

Beyond Texas, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Texas ...
    • Scurry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ira [Scurry County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ira [Jasper County].
    • Missouri
      • Laclede County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ira [Laclede County].
    • Nebraska
      • Boone 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 Nebraska community of Ira [Boone County].
    • New York
      • Cayuga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ira [Cayuga County].
    • North Carolina
      • Wilkes 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 Ira [Wilkes County].
    • Ohio
      • Summit County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ira [Summit County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Clearfield 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 Ira [Clearfield County].
    • Vermont
      • Rutland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Ira [Rutland County].
    • Virginia
      • Buchanan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ira [Buchanan County].
    • West Virginia
      • Clay County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ira [Clay County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ira ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Red River 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 Red River County.

Birmingham 
BowdenKing
  
CatonMaple Springs
CeriesMcCulloch
CherryMosely
Clair 
 Opah
Douglass 
 Rear
Harris Ferry 
HudsonTowson
  
ImaVesey
Isaca 

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 Ira 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/









 

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