Do you know of Emerson ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Emerson. 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 Emerson.
Our sources for Emerson (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 Emerson other than they indicate that Emerson would be found somewhere in Washington County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 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 Emerson ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Emerson.
Within Alabama, the name Emerson is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 28 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Emerson [Columbia County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Emerson [Hillsborough County].
- Suwannee 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 Florida community of Emerson [Suwannee County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Whiteside County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Emerson [Whiteside County].
- Iowa
- Mills County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Emerson [Mills County].
- Kansas
- Franklin 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 Emerson [Franklin County].
- Stafford 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 Emerson [Stafford County].
- Kentucky
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Emerson [Lewis County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Emerson.
- Michigan
- Alpena 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 Michigan community of Emerson [Alpena County].
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Emerson [Chippewa County].
- Missouri
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Emerson [Marion County].
- Nebraska
- Dakota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Emerson [Dakota County].
- Dixon 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 Emerson [Dixon County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Emerson.
- New York
- Cayuga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Emerson [Cayuga County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Dunn County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Emerson [Dunn County].
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Wasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Emerson [Wasco County].
- Pennsylvania
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Emerson [Bedford County].
- Texas
- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Emerson [Windsor County].
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Raleigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Emerson [Raleigh County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Emerson ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Emerson:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County.
| Baird | McIntosh Bluff |
| Exsho | Red Bud |
| Richardson | |
| Grandfield | |
| Sand Pit | |
| Horning | Slade's |
| Springbank | |
| Lumberton | State Line |
| Summit |
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 Emerson 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/ |