Do you know of Elliott ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elliott. 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 Elliott.
Our sources for Elliott (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 Elliott other than they indicate that Elliott would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1895.
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 Elliott ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Elliott.
Within Alabama, the name Elliott is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Ouachita County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Elliott [Ouachita County].
- California
- San Joaquin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Elliott [San Joaquin County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Ford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Elliott [Ford County].
- Indiana
- Vanderburgh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Elliott [Vanderburgh County].
- Iowa
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Elliott [Montgomery County].
- Kansas
- Maine
- Piscataquis 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 Maine community of Elliott [Piscataquis County].
- York 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 Maine community of Elliott [York County].
- Maryland
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Elliott [Dorchester County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Grenada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Elliott [Grenada County].
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Sampson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elliott [Sampson County].
- North Dakota
- Ransom County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Elliott [Ransom County].
- Oklahoma
- Nowata County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Elliott [Nowata County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Elliott.
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elliott [Allegheny County].
- Cumberland 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 Elliott [Cumberland County].
- South Carolina
- Chester 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 South Carolina community of Elliott [Chester County].
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Elliott [Lee County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Elliott [King County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elliott ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elliott:
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 Elliott - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Elliott 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/ |