Do you know of Oasis ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oasis. 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 Oasis.
Our sources for Oasis (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 Oasis other than they indicate that Oasis would be found somewhere in Dallas County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1907.
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 Oasis ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Oasis.
There is one other community in Texas which is also named Oasis.
Beyond Texas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Oasis.
- California
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Oasis [Mendocino County].
- Mono 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 Oasis [Mono County].
- Riverside County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Oasis [Riverside County].
- Georgia
- Fannin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oasis [Fannin County].
- Iowa
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Oasis [Johnson County].
- Kansas
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Oasis [Logan County].
- Saline 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 Kansas community of Oasis [Saline County].
- Smith 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 Kansas community of Oasis [Smith County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oasis [Rapides Parish].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Oasis [Elko County].
- New Mexico
- Sierra County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Oasis [Sierra County].
- Tennessee
- Utah
- Millard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Oasis [Millard County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oasis ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oasis:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Oasis.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 48/53256 (Place Name: Oasis)
County: Dallas (FIPS State/County: 48/113)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Oasis) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Dallas 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 Dallas 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Oasis 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/ |