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Do you know of Milo ???

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

Our sources for Milo (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 Milo other than they indicate that Milo would be found somewhere in Pike County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1853 and closed  in 1904.

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 Milo ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Milo.

Within Alabama, the name Milo is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Milo.
    • Arkansas
      • Ashley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Milo [Ashley County].
    • California
      • Tulare County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Milo [Tulare County].
    • Idaho
      • Bonneville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Milo [Bonneville County].
    • Illinois
      • Bureau County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Milo [Bureau County].
    • Indiana
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Milo [Grant County].
    • Iowa
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Milo [Warren County].
    • Kansas
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Milo [Lincoln County].
    • Kentucky
      • Martin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Milo [Martin County].
    • Maine
      • Piscataquis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Milo [Piscataquis County].
    • Michigan
      • Barry 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 Milo [Barry County].
    • Missouri
      • Vernon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Milo [Vernon County].
    • New York
      • Yates 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 New York community of Milo [Yates County].
    • Ohio
      • Defiance County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Milo [Defiance County].
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Milo [Franklin County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Carter County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Milo [Carter County].
    • Oregon
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Milo [Douglas County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Milo.
    • Tennessee
      • Bledsoe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Milo [Bledsoe County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Milo [Salt Lake County].
    • West Virginia
      • Calhoun County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Milo [Calhoun County].
      • Roane 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 West Virginia community of Milo [Roane County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Milo [Carbon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Milo ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Pike 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 Pike County.

Alred 
 Joquin
Barr's Mill 
BobKents
Boot HillKnoxville
  
CelestineMcLure
Center RidgeMerritt
County Line 
 Olustee Creek
Deleon 
 Pea River
EthelPottersville
Ezel 
 Tatum
FleetwoodTrotter
  
GleeWhite Water
Goshen HillWiley
 Woolfolk
Indian BranchWorthy

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 Milo 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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