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Do you know of Ector ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1896 and closed  in 1904.

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 Ector ...

We found one communities that share the name Ector.

Within Georgia, the name Ector is unique.

Beyond Georgia, there is another community also named Ector in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Texas
      • Fannin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ector [Fannin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ector ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Meriwether 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 Meriwether County.

Antioch 
 Magdalena
Bussey 
 Oak Ridge
Chalybeate 
ConcordScogin
CrouchSilvey
 Stinson
Erin 
EvermayThurman
  
Gold HillViolet
Greeneville 
 Warm Springs Station
HarrisWarnerville
 Weatherford
Jone's MillsWood House
  
LowevilleXerxes

Footnotes ...

<1>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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