Do you know of Ellsworth ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ellsworth. 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 Ellsworth.
Our sources for Ellsworth (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 Ellsworth other than they indicate that Ellsworth would be found somewhere in Vigo County, Indiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1861 and closed in 1878.
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 Ellsworth ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Ellsworth.
There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Ellsworth.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Dubois County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ellsworth [Dubois County].
- Dubois County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ellsworth [Logan County].
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Ellsworth [Litchfield County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ellsworth [Hillsborough County].
- Lake 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 Florida community of Ellsworth [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ellsworth [Hamilton County].
- Kansas
- Ellsworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ellsworth [Ellsworth County].
- Louisiana
- Terrebonne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ellsworth [Terrebonne Parish].
- Maine
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Ellsworth [Hancock County].
- Michigan
- Antrim County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ellsworth [Antrim County].
- Minnesota
- Nobles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ellsworth [Nobles County].
- Missouri
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ellsworth [Texas County].
- Nebraska
- Sheridan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Ellsworth [Sheridan County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ellsworth [Nye County].
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Ellsworth [Grafton County].
- New York
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ellsworth [Washington County].
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ellsworth [Grayson County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ellsworth [Clark County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ellsworth [Pierce County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ellsworth ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ellsworth:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Vigo 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 Vigo 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 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 Ellsworth 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/ |