Welcome to Melville ...

So far, we found very little information about Melville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Melville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Melville - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Melville, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Melville , we believe that it would have been located within present day Ottawa County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Melville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1878.

If Melville still existed, it would have been in the (785) area code.

Communities Also Named Melville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 20 communities that are also named Melville - they are located in Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia (3), Ontario (2), Oregon, Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, Tennessee, Vermont and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Melville.

Adding Melville to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Melville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Melville post office opened in 1878.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Melville.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Ottawa County: www.ottawacounty.org/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Melville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Ottawa, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/