Do you know of Essex ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Essex. 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 Essex.
Our sources for Essex (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 Essex other than they indicate that Essex would be found somewhere in Chittenden County, Vermont.
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 Essex ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Essex.
Within Vermont, the name Essex is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 31 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Essex [White County].
- California
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Essex [Humboldt County].
- Nevada 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 Essex [Nevada County].
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Essex [San Bernardino County].
- Connecticut
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Essex [Middlesex County].
- Georgia
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Essex [Oconee County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Page County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Essex [Page County].
- Kansas
- Finney 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 Essex [Finney County].
- Shawnee 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 Essex [Shawnee County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Essex [Baltimore County].
- Massachusetts
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Essex [Essex County].
- Suffolk 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 Massachusetts community of Essex [Suffolk County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Quitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Essex [Quitman County].
- Missouri
- Stoddard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Essex [Stoddard County].
- Montana
- Flathead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Essex [Flathead County].
- Nevada
- Washoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Essex [Washoe County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Essex [Essex County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ramsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Essex [Ramsey County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Essex.
- Washington
- Thurston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Essex [Thurston County].
- West Virginia
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Essex ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Essex:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Essex - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Essex.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 50/24100 (Place Name: Essex (Essex Center))
County: Chittenden (FIPS State/County: 50/007)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Essex) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Chittenden 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 Chittenden 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 Essex 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. |