Do you know of Elkhorn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elkhorn. 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 Elkhorn.
Our sources for Elkhorn (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 Elkhorn other than they indicate that Elkhorn would be found somewhere in Benton County, Arkansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1896.
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 Elkhorn ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Elkhorn.
Within Arkansas, the name Elkhorn is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Monterey County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Elkhorn [Monterey County].
- Idaho
- Shoshone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Elkhorn [Shoshone County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Ellsworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elkhorn [Ellsworth County].
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elkhorn [Lincoln County].
- Montgomery 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 Elkhorn [Montgomery County].
- Ottawa 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 Elkhorn [Ottawa County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Concordia Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Elkhorn [Concordia Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Elkhorn.
- Maryland
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Elkhorn [Howard County].
- Michigan
- Schoolcraft County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Elkhorn [Schoolcraft County].
- Missouri
- Ray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Elkhorn [Ray County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New York
- Oregon
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Elkhorn [Marion County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elkhorn [Allegheny County].
- Tennessee
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Elkhorn [Henry County].
- Virginia
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Elkhorn [Halifax County].
- West Virginia
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elkhorn [McDowell County].
- Wisconsin
- Walworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Elkhorn [Walworth County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elkhorn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elkhorn:
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 Elkhorn - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Benton 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 Benton County.
| Bestwater | Flint Creek |
| Copper Mine | Gentry City |
| Crowell | |
| Herd | |
| Dickson | Hickory |
| Double Spring | |
| Kenneth | |
| Esculapia | |
| War Eagle Mills |
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 Elkhorn 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/ |