Do you know of Oberlin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oberlin. 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 Oberlin.
Our sources for Oberlin (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Oberlin other than they indicate that Oberlin would be found somewhere in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
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 Oberlin ...
We found nine communities that share the name Oberlin.
There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Oberlin.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Allen Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oberlin [Allen Parish].
- Allen Parish
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Oberlin.
- Kansas
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Oberlin [Decatur County].
- Michigan
- North Carolina
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oberlin [Wake County].
- Ohio
- Lorain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Oberlin [Lorain County].
- Oklahoma
- Bryan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Oberlin [Bryan County].
- Pennsylvania
- Dauphin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Oberlin [Dauphin County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oberlin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oberlin:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oberlin - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Calcasieu Parish ...
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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 Calcasieu Parish.