Do you know of Ely ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ely, so we are uncertain whether Ely is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Ely would be found somewhere in Pawnee County, Kansas.

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 Ely ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Ely.

Within Kansas, the name Ely is unique.

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

In addition to the above occurrences of Ely, we know of two communities located outside of the United States and Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Hale 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 Alabama community of Ely [Hale County].
- California
  - Sonoma County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ely [Sonoma County].
  - Yolo 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 California community of Ely [Yolo County].
- Iowa
  - Linn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ely [Linn County].
- Michigan
  - Emmet 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 Michigan community of Ely [Emmet County].
- Minnesota
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ely [Saint Louis County].
- Missouri
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ely [Marion County].
- Nevada
  - White Pine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ely [White Pine County].
- New Jersey
  - Monmouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Ely [Monmouth County].
- Oregon
  - Clackamas 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 Oregon community of Ely [Clackamas County].
- Texas
  - Fannin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ely [Fannin County].
- Vermont
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Ely [Orange County].
- Virginia
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ely [Lee County].

Communities Beyond North America ...
- England
  - We haven't found the location of this Ely
- Wales
  - We haven't found the location of this Ely

More Orphans in Pawnee 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 Pawnee County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Ely 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.