Do you know of Myrtle ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Myrtle. 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 Myrtle.
Our sources for Myrtle (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 Myrtle other than they indicate that Myrtle would be found somewhere in Phillips County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1904.
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 Myrtle ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Myrtle.
Within Kansas, the name Myrtle is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 25 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Myrtle [Boone County].
- California
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Nez Perce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Myrtle [Nez Perce County].
- Illinois
- Ogle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Myrtle [Ogle County].
- Kentucky
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Myrtle.
- Michigan
- Alger 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 Myrtle [Alger County].
- Oakland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Myrtle [Oakland County].
- Minnesota
- Freeborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Myrtle [Freeborn County].
- Mississippi
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Myrtle [Union County].
- Missouri
- Oregon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Myrtle [Oregon County].
- Nebraska
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Myrtle [Lincoln County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Scioto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Myrtle [Scioto County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Myrtle.
- Pennsylvania
- McKean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Myrtle [McKean County].
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Virginia
- Suffolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Myrtle [Suffolk City].
- West Virginia
- Boone 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 West Virginia community of Myrtle [Boone County].
- Logan County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Myrtle [Logan County].
- Mingo County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Myrtle [Mingo County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Myrtle ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Myrtle:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Myrtle - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Phillips 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 Phillips 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 Myrtle 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/ |