Do you know of Osborn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Osborn. 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 Osborn.
Our sources for Osborn (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 Osborn other than they indicate that Osborn would be found somewhere in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1925.
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 Osborn ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Osborn.
Within Louisiana, the name Osborn is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Osborn [Perry County].
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Osborn [Benton County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Osborn.
- Connecticut
- Georgia
- Towns County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Osborn [Towns County].
- Illinois
- Rock Island County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Osborn [Rock Island County].
- Indiana
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Osborn [Lake County].
- Kansas
- 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 Kansas community of Osborn [Crawford County].
- Neosho 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 Kansas community of Osborn [Neosho County].
- Kentucky
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Osborn [Floyd County].
- Maine
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Osborn [Hancock County].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Benzie 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 Osborn [Benzie County].
- Lenawee 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 Osborn [Lenawee County].
- Menominee 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 Osborn [Menominee County].
- Mississippi
- Oktibbeha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Osborn [Oktibbeha County].
- Missouri
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Osborn [Mercer County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Osborn [Charleston County].
- Colleton 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 South Carolina community of Osborn [Colleton County].
- Tennessee
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Osborn [Johnson County].
- Washington
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Osborn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Osborn:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Rapides 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 Rapides 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 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 Osborn 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/ |