Do you know of Overton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Overton. 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 Overton.
Our sources for Overton (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 Overton other than they indicate that Overton would be found somewhere in Elbert County, Georgia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1908.
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 Overton ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Overton.
Within Georgia, the name Overton is unique.
Beyond Georgia, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Overton [Jefferson County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Overton [Hillsborough County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Webster Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Overton [Webster Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Overton.
- Maryland
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Overton [Kent County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Cooper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Overton [Cooper County].
- Nebraska
- Dawson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Overton [Dawson County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Overton [Clark County].
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Overton [Humboldt County].
- Lincoln 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 Nevada community of Overton [Lincoln County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Overton.
- Ohio
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Overton [Wayne County].
- Pennsylvania
- Bradford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Overton [Bradford County].
- Westmoreland 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 Overton [Westmoreland County].
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Overton [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Rusk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Overton [Rusk County].
- Virginia
- Albemarle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Overton [Albemarle County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Overton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Overton:
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 Overton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)
Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Elbert 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 Elbert 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 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 Overton 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/ |