Do you know of Ashby ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ashby. 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 Ashby.
We found mention of Ashby as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Coles County, Illinois.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1860.
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 Ashby ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Ashby.
Within Illinois, the name Ashby is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ashby [Bibb County].
- Indiana
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Ashby [Middlesex County].
- Minnesota
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ashby [Grant County].
- Nebraska
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Ashby [Grant County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Ashby.
- Tennessee
- Grainger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ashby [Grainger County].
- Texas
- Matagorda County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ashby [Matagorda County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ashby [Adams County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ashby ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ashby:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Coles 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 Coles 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 Ashby 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/ |