Do you know of Ashville ???

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

Our sources for Ashville (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 Ashville other than they indicate that Ashville would be found somewhere in Schuyler County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1894.

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 Ashville ...

We found ten communities that share the name Ashville.

Within Illinois, the name Ashville is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Saint Clair County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ashville [Saint Clair County].
  • Florida
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ashville [Jefferson County].
  • Kentucky
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ashville [Jefferson County].
  • Louisiana
    • Tensas Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ashville [Tensas Parish].
  • Maine
    • Hancock County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Ashville [Hancock County].
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Ashville.
  • New York
    • Chautauqua County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ashville [Chautauqua County].
  • Ohio
    • Pickaway County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ashville [Pickaway County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Cambria County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ashville [Cambria County].
  • Virginia
    • Fauquier County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ashville [Fauquier County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ashville ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ashville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Schuyler County ...

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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 Schuyler County.