Do you know of Mount Olivet ???

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

Our sources for Mount Olivet (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 Mount Olivet other than they indicate that Mount Olivet would be found somewhere in Sonoma County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1909.

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 Mount Olivet ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Mount Olivet.

Within California, the name Mount Olivet is unique.

Beyond California, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Mount Olivet [Jefferson County].
- Georgia
  - Hart County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mount Olivet [Hart County].
- Kansas
  - Leavenworth 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 Mount Olivet [Leavenworth County].
- Kentucky
  - Robertson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mount Olivet [Robertson County].
- Michigan
  - Wayne 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 Mount Olivet [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
  - Panola County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mount Olivet [Panola County].
- Tennessee
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Olivet [Rutherford County].
- Virginia
  - Dinwiddie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mount Olivet [Dinwiddie County].
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mount Olivet [Pulaski County].
- West Virginia
  - Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mount Olivet [Marshall County].
  - Mercer 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 Mount Olivet [Mercer County].
  - Preston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mount Olivet [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Olivet ...

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Sonoma 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 Sonoma County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Mount Olivet 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/