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Do you know of Ramsey ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 and closed  in 1912.

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 Ramsey ...

We found 35 communities that share the name Ramsey.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Ramsey.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 34 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Etowah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ramsey [Etowah County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Cochise County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Ramsey [Cochise County].
    • Arkansas
      • Dallas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ramsey [Dallas County].
    • California
      • Inyo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ramsey [Inyo County].
      • Mendocino County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ramsey [Mendocino County].
      • Modoc County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ramsey [Modoc County].
    • Georgia
      • Dougherty 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 Georgia community of Ramsey [Dougherty County].
      • Murray 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 Georgia community of Ramsey [Murray County].
    • Idaho
      • Kootenai County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Ramsey [Kootenai County].
    • Illinois
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ramsey [Fayette County].
    • Indiana
      • Harrison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ramsey [Harrison County].
    • Kentucky
      • McCracken 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 Kentucky community of Ramsey [McCracken County].
    • Louisiana
      • Vermilion Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Ramsey [Vermilion Parish].
    • Minnesota
      • Anoka County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ramsey [Anoka County].
      • Mower County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ramsey [Mower County].
    • Missouri
      • Miller 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 Missouri community of Ramsey [Miller County].
    • Montana
      • Flathead County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Ramsey [Flathead County].
    • Nevada
      • Lyon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ramsey [Lyon County].
    • North Carolina
      • Burke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ramsey [Burke County].
    • North Dakota
      • Ramsey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Ramsey [Ramsey County].
    • Ohio
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ramsey [Jefferson County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ramsey.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lycoming County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ramsey [Lycoming County].
    • South Carolina
      • Sumter 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 Ramsey [Sumter County].
    • South Dakota
      • McCook 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 Dakota community of Ramsey [McCook County].
    • Tennessee
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ramsey [Hancock County].
      • Knox County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ramsey [Knox County].
      • Shelby County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ramsey [Shelby County].
    • Texas
      • Colorado County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ramsey [Colorado County].
    • Virginia
      • Dickenson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ramsey [Dickenson County].
      • 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 Virginia community of Ramsey [Franklin County].
      • Nelson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ramsey [Nelson County].
      • Norton City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ramsey [Norton City].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ramsey [Fayette County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon 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 Wyoming community of Ramsey [Carbon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ramsey ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Sumter 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 Sumter County.

Bell's 
BodkaLee's
  
Curl's StationRosser
  
DialSherman
 Sumter
Epes' Station 
 Whitfiled
Ivy 

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 Ramsey 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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