Do you know of Egypt ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Egypt. 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 Egypt.
We found mention of Egypt as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Mason 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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1884.
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 Egypt ...
We found 43 communities that share the name Egypt.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Egypt.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 41 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Egypt [Craighead County].
- Georgia
- Effingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Egypt [Effingham County].
- Idaho
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Egypt [Franklin County].
- Indiana
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Egypt [Jasper County].
- Kansas
- Harvey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Egypt [Harvey County].
- Kentucky
- Elliott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Egypt [Elliott County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Egypt [Jackson County].
- Rowan 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 Kentucky community of Egypt [Rowan County].
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Egypt [Hancock County].
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Egypt [Plymouth County].
- Mississippi
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Egypt.
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Egypt [Monroe County].
- North Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Egypt [Beaufort County].
- Chatham 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 North Carolina community of Egypt [Chatham County].
- Ohio
- Auglaize County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Egypt [Auglaize County].
- Belmont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Egypt [Belmont County].
- Licking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Egypt [Licking County].
- Scioto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Egypt [Scioto County].
- Tuscarawas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Egypt [Tuscarawas County].
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Egypt [Wood County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Egypt [Clearfield County].
- Fayette 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 Pennsylvania community of Egypt [Fayette County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Egypt [Jefferson County].
- Lehigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Egypt [Lehigh County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Caledonia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Egypt [Caledonia County].
- Franklin 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 Vermont community of Egypt [Franklin County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Egypt [Jefferson County].
- Summers County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Egypt [Summers County].
- Wayne 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 West Virginia community of Egypt [Wayne County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Egypt ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Egypt:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Mason 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 Mason 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 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 Egypt 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/ |