Do you know of Ashley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ashley. 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 Ashley.<1>
We found mention of Ashley as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent County, Michigan.
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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1878.
Communities Also Named Ashley ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Ashley.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Ashley.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Gratiot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ashley [Gratiot County].
- Gratiot County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Ashley [New Castle County].
- Georgia
- Ben Hill County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ashley [Ben Hill County].
- Wilcox 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 Georgia community of Ashley [Wilcox County].
- Illinois
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ashley [Washington County].
- Indiana
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ashley [DeKalb County].
- Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ashley [East Baton Rouge Parish].
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Copiah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Ashley [Copiah County].
- Missouri
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ashley [Pike County].
- Montana
- Flathead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Ashley [Flathead County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- McIntosh County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Ashley [McIntosh County].
- Ohio
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ashley [Delaware County].
- Oklahoma
- Alfalfa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Ashley [Alfalfa County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ashley [Luzerne County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ashley [Spartanburg County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Dinwiddie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ashley [Dinwiddie County].
- West Virginia
- Doddridge County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ashley [Doddridge County].
- Wisconsin
- Marathon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ashley [Marathon County].
- Delaware
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ashley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ashley:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Ashley 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |