Do you know of Odell ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Odell. 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 Odell.
Our sources for Odell (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 Odell other than they indicate that Odell would be found somewhere in Forsyth County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1905.
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 Odell ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Odell.
Within Georgia, the name Odell is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Odell [Washington County].
- Illinois
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Odell [Livingston County].
- Indiana
- Tippecanoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Odell [Tippecanoe County].
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Gage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Odell [Gage County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Odell.
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Odell [Sullivan County].
- North Carolina
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Odell [Warren County].
- North Dakota
- Barnes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Odell [Barnes County].
- Ohio
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Odell [Guernsey County].
- Oregon
- Hood River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Odell [Hood River County].
- Pennsylvania
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Odell [Washington County].
- Texas
- Wilbarger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Odell [Wilbarger County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Odell [Kanawha County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Odell ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Odell:
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 Odell - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)
Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Forsyth 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 Forsyth County.
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Odell 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/ |