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Do you know of Felix ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1885 and closed  in 1907.

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 Felix ...

We found eight communities that share the name Felix.

Within Georgia, the name Felix is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Perry 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 Alabama community of Felix [Perry County].
    • California
      • Calaveras County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Felix [Calaveras County].
    • Kansas
      • Finney 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 Felix [Finney County].
    • New Mexico
      • Otero County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Felix [Otero County].
    • North Carolina
      • Davie 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 North Carolina community of Felix [Davie County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Felix.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Somerset 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 Pennsylvania community of Felix [Somerset County].
    • Wyoming
      • Campbell 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 Wyoming community of Felix [Campbell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Felix ...

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

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

Map from 1895 (unknown title/publisher)

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

More Orphans in  Colquitt 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 Colquitt County.

Aberdeen 
 Hempstead
BarberHorkan
Bohrman 
 Kingwood
Conoly 
CooperLadson
CordovaLawson
 Liberty
Debbie 
DemotteMay
Dot 
 Obe
East Moultrie 
ElmRandel
EnglishRothersay
  
GuestSilar

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Felix 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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