Do you know of Hord ???

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

Our sources for Hord (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 Hord other than they indicate that Hord would be found somewhere in Shelby County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1893 and closed  in 1901.

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 Hord ...

We found three communities that share the name Hord.

Within Indiana, the name Hord is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Clay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hord [Clay County].
  • Missouri
    • Callaway County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hord [Callaway County].
  • Nebraska
    • Merrick County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hord [Merrick County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hord ...

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

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

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Shelby 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 Shelby County.