Do you know of Ivanhoe ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ivanhoe. 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 Ivanhoe.
Our sources for Ivanhoe (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 Ivanhoe other than they indicate that Ivanhoe would be found somewhere in Searcy County, Arkansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 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 Ivanhoe ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Ivanhoe.
Within Arkansas, the name Ivanhoe is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 27 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ivanhoe [Tulare County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Bulloch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ivanhoe [Bulloch County].
- Illinois
- Cook 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 Illinois community of Ivanhoe [Cook County].
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ivanhoe [Lake County].
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ivanhoe [Will County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Saint Mary Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ivanhoe [Saint Mary Parish].
- Michigan
- Huron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ivanhoe [Huron County].
- Minnesota
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ivanhoe [Lincoln County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ivanhoe [Elko County].
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Ivanhoe [Grant County].
- New York
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ivanhoe [Delaware County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Ivanhoe.
- North Carolina
- Sampson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ivanhoe [Sampson County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ivanhoe.
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Ivanhoe [Custer County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wythe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ivanhoe [Wythe County].
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ivanhoe ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ivanhoe:
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 Ivanhoe - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Searcy 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 Searcy County.
| Calf Creek | |
| Glenco | |
| Debie | |
| Omage | |
| Fawn |
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 Ivanhoe 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/ |