Do you know of Hale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hale. 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 Hale.
Our sources for Hale (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 Hale other than they indicate that Hale would be found somewhere in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 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 Hale ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Hale.
Within Louisiana, the name Hale is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 25 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Etowah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hale [Etowah County].
- Arkansas
- Crawford 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 Arkansas community of Hale [Crawford County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hale [Jackson County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Hale.
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hale [Jones County].
- Kansas
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Hale [Oxford County].
- Michigan
- Iosco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hale [Iosco County].
- Mississippi
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hale [Clarke County].
- Missouri
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hale [Carroll County].
- Nebraska
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Hale.
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hale [Shelby County].
- Oklahoma
- Tulsa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hale [Tulsa County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hale.
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hale [Clearfield County].
- South Carolina
- Pickens County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Hale [Pickens County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Trempealeau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Hale [Trempealeau County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hale:
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 Hale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Caddo Parish ...
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 Caddo Parish.
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 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 Hale 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 parish. 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/ |