Do you know of Odessa ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Odessa. 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 Odessa.
We found mention of Odessa as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jewell County, Kansas.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1888.
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 Odessa ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Odessa.
Within Kansas, the name Odessa is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Kings County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Odessa [Kings County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Odessa [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Pasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Odessa [Pasco County].
- Georgia
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Odessa [Wayne County].
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Big Stone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Odessa [Big Stone County].
- Missouri
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Odessa [Lafayette County].
- Nebraska
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Odessa [Buffalo County].
- New York
- Schuyler County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Odessa [Schuyler County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Odessa [Henry County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Odessa.
- Pennsylvania
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Odessa.
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Ector County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Odessa [Ector County].
- Washington
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Odessa [Lincoln County].
- West Virginia
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Odessa [Clay County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Odessa ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Odessa:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Jewell 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 Jewell 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Odessa 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/ |