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Do you know of Agate (aka 'Agate') ???

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

Our sources for Agate (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 Agate other than they indicate that Agate would be found somewhere in Floyd County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1933.

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 Agate ...

We found ten communities that share the name Agate.

Within Georgia, the name Agate is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Agate.
    • Colorado
      • Elbert County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Agate [Elbert County].
    • Michigan
      • Ontonagon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Agate [Ontonagon County].
    • Minnesota
      • Nobles 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 Minnesota community of Agate [Nobles County].
    • Nebraska
      • Sioux County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Agate [Sioux County].
    • North Dakota
      • Rolette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Agate [Rolette County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Agate.
    • Utah
      • Grand County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Agate [Grand County].
    • Washington
      • Lewis 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 Washington community of Agate [Lewis County].
      • Mason County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Agate [Mason County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Agate ...

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

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

Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Floyd 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 Floyd County.

AbtEast Rome
Alto Park 
 Fairbanks
Baker's StoreFerry
Barkers StoreFlo
BauxiteForrestville
Briceville 
BrickyardHarpers
BriscoHaynie
Buchalters 
ByrdMissionary Station
  
CaldwellObryan
Cathey 
Celanese VillageRounsaville
ChambersRustic
Chatillon 
ChunalanskaSacale Works
Convenient 
 Waters
De Soto ParkWest End
  

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 Agate 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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